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The deep litter method is quickly becoming more common among homesteaders — even urban homesteaders. What is it? Essentially, the deep litter method is where you pour four to six inches of clean litter into your chicken coop and leave ...

One of the first steps in bringing chickens to your backyard homestead is building a coop. The size of the coop depends on how many hens and roosters you intend to house. Opinions differ on the amount of space needed, ...

Do you know where your food comes from? Unless you raise what goes on the dinner plate yourself, the answer to that question will likely be shocking. The USDA will soon permit chickens raised in America to be sent to ...

If you’re anything like me, then you probably don’t throw out a whole lot of your building scraps. But then they sit around the shed or garage and they get burned, or they rot, or they’re possibly used in some ...

New Year’s resolutions are a funny thing. More than half of the American population make them yet only 8 percent of those people will actually achieve their resolution. Think about past resolutions you may have made. Did you actually achieve ...

When it comes to raising chickens, most likely at some point you will have a bird that you wish to process. Egg-layers make good soup once their productive years are done. There are also many “all-purpose” chicken breeds, like the ...

There are many different ways to make homemade chicken broth. Some are quite complicated (but rewarding) while others are easier to accomplish when you have a busy schedule to keep. Either way, you can make your own rich and flavorful ...

Eating meat could become a thing of the past if two of the biggest names in technology get their way. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Google co-founder Sergey Brin are both promoting the idea that meat is bad for the ...

Raising poultry is hard enough work, but West Virginia farmer Lois Alt has been battling not only the weather lately but also the EPA – and she’s winning. The EPA is threatening to fine Alt $37,500 each time it rains. ...

A chicken-farming grandmother from West Virginia has won a major victory for all farmers against the Environmental Protection Agency, which had threatened her with millions of dollars in fines in a case that could have impacted thousands of other farmers. ...