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Hey all. Just wanted to post here and say chicken math is real when it comes to meat birds too. I went from a few birds in a season, to 50 a year - enough for the family for a year, to 250 per year - because why not do 250 when you are already doing 50 and sell the extras. Now this year we are...

Hey ya ducksters, I am looking into adding ducks to my homestead. We have a flock of free range laying hens - usually about 100-150 depending on the time of year. We also raise a couple hundred meat birds in mobile pasture pens every season. I had a chef, that often buys our whole chickens...

Has anyone ever had any experience with a breed called Blue Plymouth Rock that is supposed to be a cross between Blue Andalusian and Plymouth Barred Rock? We got 50 chicks late this summer. They are lookers for sure and their drive to forage and dust is unmatched among the other laying breeds...

I haven't skinned a chicken since the first couple that I butchered years ago. This was a hatched Ameraucana/Astrolorp Roo that was too beautiful to waste the feathers. My wife salted and strung the skin on this frame that I made for it. Seems like so long ago that we did this. I was looking...

I've seen and heard alot about supplemental lighting and how much it's worth it, economically, to provide extra light to your birds during the dead of winter. I've even seen the difference myself after having used extra light in the winter for my birds. What I failed to record or even try to...