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All Natural Coop Disinfectant
If you keep chickens, you’re going to get familiar with poop. Chickens poop….like a lot. Not only while they are running around, but they continue to let it loose as they sleep. All this manure in your coop is the perfect breeding ground for bacteria and flies in the warmer months. Yuck. Every time you clean the coop and change their bedding, you should be disinfecting. But don’t think you need to turn to harmful chemicals and toxic cleaners to get the job done. Use my favorite home made natural disinfectant instead. ORANGE AND VINEGAR NATURAL DISINFECTANT Making your own non toxic and natural disinfectant is so easy and so inexpensive.…
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Do I Need a Rooster??
You must have started, or be thinking about starting your own flock of chickens! Yay! Congratulations! You are about to start the most rewarding journey as a hobby farmer. I like to call chickens, the “gateway animal.” Give it some time, and you’ll see what I mean 😉 A question I get asked rather frequently is: Do I need a rooster to get eggs? Answer: NO!!! Your chickens will lay eggs with or without a roo. Their reproductive cycles are not determined by whether or not fertilization occurs. Each breed produces and lays eggs at a slightly different rate. And environmental factors such as the amount of daylight a hen…
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Why Aren’t My Chickens Laying in the Winter
This article contains affiliate links. This means if you click through and make a purchase I may receive a commission, at no additional cost to you. For more information see my disclosures here. Over the summer you were getting an abundance of eggs each day. So many that maybe you didn’t even know what to do with them! Then fall rolled around, and things started to slow down. By December…. you were lucky to find one lone egg in the nesting boxes. What gives?! Just like everything, eggs have a season. There are periods of high production, and periods of slow to no production. It’s all part of a healthy…
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Are Pastured Eggs REALLY Better??
Let’s talk eggs. With so many options in the super-market: organic, cage-free, white eggs, brown eggs, how can you be sure what you’re really getting?! Are the pastured eggs from your local farmer REALLY any better?? The answer: YES!! How does the Nutritional Value of Pastured Eggs Compare? Since pastured eggs typically come from smaller scale farms, the money to front a large study to put this debate to rest just isn’t there. Fortunately, I did find a small study by Mother Earth News done in 2007 that proves the superiority of our pastured eggs. Study by Mother Earth News “Most of the eggs currently sold in supermarkets are nutritionally inferior…
