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How To Get Started on the Path to Providing for Your Family

Have you been used to buying your groceries at the supermarkets? Never raised animals or had a garden? Are you  trying to figure out how to get started on the path to providing for your family? Have you thought about starting a homestead? It can certainly feel overwhelming just to get started. So think about getting started, but doing it on a small … [Read more...]


Filed Under: How To, How to Get Started, Raising Chickens, Raising Meat Birds, Raising PigsTagged: chickens, chicks, Grow Vegetables, hens, How To:, laying hens, Potatoes, Raising Meat Birds, self sufficiency

Roosters Versus Hens

meat birds, raising chicks

If you are going to raise some meat birds, you will have a choice of ordering unsexed chicks, all rooster chicks or all pullets (hens). Should you order roosters or hens?  We always order unsexed (or straight run as they are called) chicks. They are cheaper than ordering all roosters or all hens. We like a variety of sizes of chickens in our freezer, another good reason for ordering them … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Raising Chickens, Raising Meat BirdsTagged: hens, pullets, roosters

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