Long-time readers may
find this boring, but I thought I’d point new readers to a series of
posts on our homesteading blog that summed up 2012’s experiments.
(You might also want to read my
sumup of 2011’s experiments.) Here are this year’s
highlights:
Free
range chicken experiments — When and how to let chickens out of
the pasture without too much angst.- Streamlining
chicken pasturing — And how to keep them happy when they’re
fenced in. - Deep
bedding — Tweaking our manure-management system. - Becoming
a chick expert — Bringing hatch rates to 95%! - Best
homemade chicken waterers — My favorite of your designs during
the past year. Eating
heirloom chickens — Getting the most out of flavorful but tougher
birds.- Looking
ahead to 2013 chicken experiments — And, of course, there’s
plenty left to learn.
What did you learn from
your flock this year?
Our
chicken waterer keeps our
broiler and laying flocks healthy, and keeps our chicken-keeping time
to a minimum.
chicken waterer keeps our
broiler and laying flocks healthy, and keeps our chicken-keeping time
to a minimum.
