Poultry

Hatching Eggs

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Building Feeders and Waterers

Two fun facts for you:

1: Life is not all Pinterest

2: Chickens love making a mess

Haha, chickens! Take that! No more perch-n-poo in your water. A food-grade bucket and some watering nipples produce another money-saving DIY.

I have another diy waterer option that I liked better. Will add that here too later.

Have you seen those cute feeders that hang from the ceiling, and all the birds gather around to eat? It’s cute until some mischievous chicken discovers the fun of flying off the perch and crashing into it sending feed flying everywhere. Amusing once perhaps, until it becomes a habit. DIY fix coming up…

Building Shelters

• Rodent-proofing

• Adding a lean-to for expansion

• Building a coop from scratch with salvaged lumber

Butchering

• DIY electric chicken plucker

Raising Chicks

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Growing Food for Chickens

The right fresh foods added to their diet keep them healthy, and can cut down on the feed bill. Growing greens is important in the winter when they can’t get out and forage for themselves.

• Growing fodder
  Sprouting barley for fresh chicken feed over the winter is cheap, quick, and easy. I just start a new tray every few days for a continuous supply. Info coming up…
• Herbs for egg layers
• Growing mealworms (it’s so funny watching especially the tiny chicks run around having fun with these!)
  

Pets, Poultry, Protection and Predators

Dogs, ducks, cats, chickens… The pros and cons.

Getting used to each other. Keltie did look moderately offended when she woke to the insolent intruder on HER bed, but she’d had lots of training in self-control with world’s sassy rabbit in previous years.