After finding out how close our hens were to laying I started planning a little nesting box. I wanted one small enough to use in the mobile run, and able to be removed from their and put in the barn coop. I had enough room in the run to make a box 28 inches wide [...]
Along with the weeding there is another aspect of the garden that shouldn’t be ignored for too long. Garden pests. They need to be controlled and destroyed. We don’t use much for sprays and pesticides here so I won’t be able to tell you much about those. We do use Sevin [...]
So the chickens needed a house. We knew this before we got them, but now we had an obvious and growing need for it. How big and where to put it were two questions we hadn’t resolved. We should have had plans and the site all staked, plotted and ready to go. Money [...]
When we first bought our 3.25 acre spread we knew we wanted to try chickens. We had read all of the country living magazines we could find under varied titles like Country, and Mother Earth News. All of them had nice articles about chickens and how easy they were to keep. They were a nice [...]
I have been asked to describe our pasture lay-out and how we made it work for our animals.
Our house, shop, barn and garden sit on about 1.25 acres. The main garden is about 100 feet by 50 feet. There are two smaller patches of about 500 square feet total. The divided pasture takes up the [...]
