by Marie | Jun 9, 2020 | Chickens, Poultry Health & Wellness
Signs That a Hen Will Begin Laying Soon You’ve carefully chosen your chick breeds, placed your order, and waited patiently for your hatch day to arrive. You’ve successfully navigated the brooder phase and the awkward “teenager” chick phase. Now, the days are nearing...
by Sarah W. | Apr 6, 2020 | Recipes
How To Cook Eggs In A Pressure Cooker It’s spring, which means your hens are probably back to laying large amounts of eggs! One way to enjoy your abundance of eggs is to hard boil them to make deviled eggs, egg salad, or even dye for Easter. Cooking eggs in the...
by Marie | Aug 26, 2019 | Poultry Health & Wellness
How to Tell a Laying Hen from a Non-Laying Hen Since I keep a fairly large flock of laying hens to have enough eggs to sell at my local farmers market, I cannot afford to keep too many non-productive hens around that eat feed but don’t lay many eggs. Here are a...
by Marie | Jan 28, 2019 | Recipes
Too Many Eggs? Try These Non-Breakfast Ideas Last summer you were undone by the chicken math, and for months you have been feeding your ravenous flock of tiny velociraptors through the winter with barely an egg in sight. Maybe you have even been forced to (gasp!) buy...