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Hey all. If anyone has not yet incubated eggs or raised chicks using a broody hen I recently created a video with a step by step guide. It also goes into how you can purchase chicks at the feed store and give them to a broody hen thereby avoiding the whole brooder/heat lamp hassle. Just an FYI...

So we hatched our first chickens at our new homestead! Christmas eve and Christmas day we hatched these 5 beauties. Sadly there are still 8 more eggs that look like they won't hatch...this is down from the original 26 which 13 didn't mature, we really thought we would hatch the remaining 13 but...

And so it begins again, +95% of the seeds are sorted into their correct shoe boxes, a planting plan is in Excel, dreams of Spring grow stronger, even though the main garden looks like this: The homemade rack has been upgraded to include heat mats It's made of PVC pipe and fittings. Once we...

I knew today would be close to hatching, however they are a little early by 2 days. Chickens take 21 days to hatch once the incubation process is started and these are at 19. The ones hatching are Dominiques and CuKoo Marans, The Black Australorps are peeping but none are pecking out yet. HAd to...

News at 11.........pics will follow.