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Getting Started

How to Add Ducks or Geese to Your Flock

Raising a Mixed Flock of Chickens, Ducks and Geese   Would you believe that my first love in the feathered friends world…

Advanced Topics

Keeping Chicks Warm When the Power Goes Off

When an unexpected storm shuts down the power grid people are lucky.  We can put a comfy fleece jacket over long johns…

Seasonal Planning

Valentine’s Treats for Your Flock

I realize my chickens have no idea if it’s Valentine’s Day or not, but what chicken doesn’t love a special treat now…

Advanced Topics Choosing Your First Breed

Rooster or No Rooster?

My grandfather used to swear everyone who had chickens, needed a rooster. He would say things like, “a rooster keeps all the…

Advanced Topics

Smart Chicken Coop Technology: Why It Still Pays to Visit Daily

Hoover’s Hatchery recently produced a Facebook Live event at Etzel’s Sugar Grove Farm showing how Carl and Gavin Rosier use modern smart…

Advanced Topics

Off The Grid Chicks

Carl and Gavin Rosier have found solutions to problems shared by many backyard flock owners. They are researching how to use chickens…

Advanced Topics

How to Prepare Your Flock for Extreme Winter Weather

It’s almost the middle of winter and here in southwest Minnesota, we still have no snow! Usually by now, we’re all singing…

Seasonal Planning

How to Decorate Your Chicken Coop for Christmas (Two Easy Ways)

Happy December, everyone! Like most folks around here, we got a good head start on our holiday decorating this year, and I…

Health & Wellness

Treat Idea: Sprouted Grains for Chickens

I set off on a little adult science fair project this past week. I decided that in honor of Thanksgiving week, I’d…

Getting Started

Why We Like Raising Turkeys on Our Homestead

We enjoy keeping turkeys on our homestead. While this is the first year that we have raised turkeys from poults, we have…

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