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Gardening With Your Chickens
Gardening and chickens go together as well as peanut butter and jelly! Chances are if you’re into raising chickens, you probably also have a green thumb, or maybe you at least want to have a green thumb but maybe haven’t had much luck gardening in the past. Chickens can help!
Breed Spotlight: Raising Heritage Turkeys
Everything that I read boasted about the amazing taste of the heritage turkey breeds and their great foraging abilities. So naturally, I needed to give them a try. Due to the minimum order requirement of 20 for heritage turkey breeds and not wanting quite so many turkeys I split an order with a fellow Meyer Hatchery Remote team member, Sarah. For my portion of the order, I received six Bourbon Red, three Black Spanish, and three Midget White. Sarah’s order included three Chocolate, three Royal Palm, three Blue Slate, and three Narragansett.
Top 10 Best Chicken Reads
Attention all chicken enthusiasts! Do you enjoy reading or learning about chickens? If so please be sure to check out what I call my top 10 chicken reads! I have selected a wide variety of books that cover anything and everything chicken related from identification, health, handling, and raising, showing and even cooking.
How to Turn a Horse Stall Into a Chicken Coop
When building a chicken coop, the hardest and most expensive part is usually building the structure itself. The size of the coop, location, materials available, and your budget all need to be taken into consideration when building a new coop. When converting a horse stall into a chicken coop, this hard part is mostly all already done!
Egg Decorating Ideas For Naturally Colorful Eggs
What if I told you that you can use your already jewel toned eggs and still have fun decorating the hard-boiled beauties for those Easter baskets? I was struggling with this “problem” this year and here are some ideas that I came up with.
Meyer Makes: A Chicken Saddle
Meyer Makes: A Chicken SaddleOn this episode of Meyer Makes, Jess shows us how to sew a chicken saddle. Sometimes a rooster with a “favorite” hen may cause damage to her feathers and back. Putting a saddle (also known as a chicken apron) on your hen can protect them...
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Customer APPRECIATION Day!
Join us Saturday, June 15th at Meyer Hatchery as we celebrate you, our customer! Today only, the hatchery will be open for tours along with food, vendors, games, raffles and much more.
Lisa Steele’s Top Poultry Picks!
As a proud partner of Lisa Steele, found of Fresh Eggs Daily we’ve put together a special page dedicated to Lisa’s top Meyer Hatchery Poultry Picks! You’ll also find her favorite home goods and episodes to her new TV series Welcome To My Farm.