Large Family Raising Fruit John 15:5
**A note before you read further: I did try to be on the conservative side with a lot of these pictures & not show anything graphic, but there are pictures below, mostly of our kids.** Since we’ve been incubating eggs to try to increase our …
As we were getting ready to butcher chickens, we realized there is a lot of prep involved! We were blessed to have a friend who has butchered before come over & help us. That was such a blessing! He also told us what we needed …
The kids have been enjoying hatching eggs. It’s such a great experience. We used eggs that our hens laid. The last batch had several that were mixed breeds, so this time we separated the Dominiques to make sure this batch was 100% Dominiques. We put …
We have an abundance of eggs for sale. If anyone is interested. 🙂 $3 a dozen or 2 dozen for $5. We will be making a trip to Rockford next week also & can meet somewhere if anyone needs any. 🙂 We also have a …
 Hi this is Lizzy, when the chicks were hatching I decided that I was going to catalog everything that I noticed going on. This is just going to be part number one and the rest will come soon.   Jan 29        5:00 Keira …
If you want to read Part 1 about choosing a breed & starting off, you can read it here: Tips on Raising Chickens – Part 1 Today we’ll be talking about Raising Baby Chicks. If you start with eggs or chicks you’ll need to be …
Hello, I (Xanna) will be sharing some thoughts and suggestions on raising/keeping chickens. First off, you have to consider the breed(s) you want to keep. This will be based very much off of why you are interested in keeping chickens and if you’ve had any …
In the top picture, you may be able to see that 6 chicks have now hatched. 7 more have not yet. 🙂 One in the top left corner is yellow, the rest are all black. Our kids LOVE to incubate chickens (starting with eggs that …
Today’s Gratitude Post is brought to you by Lucas. Lucas is thankful that he is in 4H. He loves to do archery & air rifle. He is also excited about showing a chicken this summer and incubating some of our chicken eggs. He is thankful …
Our chicken journey began in May 2017 when we bought our first baby chicks. We purchased 15, received 17, 2 died & had 15 healthy chicks. We had a rough fall and winter & lost all but 4. So in February of 2018, we bought …