We love our Buff Orpingtons and with a natural broody tendency, this breed are a perfect way to incubate, hatch and raise the next generation of chickens in our flock, …
broody hen Chicken Breeding ChickensBroody Hens: Part 1 Maximizing Chick Hatching with Broody Hens
Chicken Breeding homesteadingEssential Guide to Incubating Eggs for Better Results
Incubating eggs offers a cost-effective way to enhance your flock size, especially amidst rising prices for point of lay hens. Aside from saving money, incubation provides a wider breed selection and an engaging experience for kids and families. There are a number of considerations htat need to be taken into account as well as selecting the equipment you need.
ChickensTop Tips for Buying Chickens
Buying chickens can be a daunting process and it can be difficult to know if the seller you’re buying from is reputable and keeps the chickens to high welfare standards. …
ChickensHow to Make Chickens Friendly: Essential Tips
The Benefits of Friendly Chickens There are many reasons why backyard chicken keepers not only want but also need their chickens to be friendly. We’ve certainly found this over the …
ChickensHot Summers and Poultry Drinkers
Hot, dry summer days brings a new set of challenges when providing water to your poultry. Let us describe how we have solved some of these issues. Drinker Types Hot …
homesteading smallholdingHow We Began Our Smallholding / Homesteader Life
We want to explain a little about where we live, how we live and look at why we chose this life because let’s face it, no-one chooses to be a …
Chicken Breeding ChickensA Guide to Chicken Saddles
When we were first introduced to the concept of chicken saddles it conjured up images of chickens racing across a field with tiny little jockeys bobbing up and down on …
Chickens homesteading smallholdingBird Flu and Chicken Boredom Busters
We started keeping chickens so that we could free range them and raise them to high welfare standards. Unfortunately, bird flu (caused by the Avian Influenza virus) has become a …
Garden Grow Your OwnJerusalem Artichokes – Underrated and Perennial
How many of you have heard of Jerusalem Artichokes? Not the Globe Artichokes that you can easily buy in the supermarket, but Jerusalem Artichokes? No? No-one? Well you’re not alone. …
fruit garden Garden homesteading smallholding TreesThe last of the Fruit Harvest (thank goodness!)
If you’ve been reading our blog you’ll know that we are self sufficient in fruit. That is unless we decide we want a banana or pineapple which struggle in the …