A broody hen is an ideal way to hatch eggs and raise baby chicks naturally. The broody hen will do all the work for you, and her success rate will be higher than yours. Even though the hen knows what she is doing, she can still use a little support from us to hatch eggs and raise her chicks. Use…
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How to Hatch Eggs with a Broody Hen
How to Raise Chicks: The First 6 Weeks
Whether you mail order day old chicks from a hatchery, choose peeps from your local farm and feed store, or hatch eggs in an incubator, use these guidelines to raise chicks the first 6 weeks. Raising chicks is a fun and rewarding project for anyone but for a homesteader, it’s also a necessity. Those baby chicks will be needed for…
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Incubating Eggs: How to Hatch Chicken Eggs Using an Incubator
If you are looking for a fun family project that will increase the number of animals on your homestead, try hatching chicken eggs in an incubator. Hatching eggs is also a great way to start a flock of chickens for a minimal investment of time and money. Since our flock is getting older, we wanted to add a few new…
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How to Prepare for Baby Chicks
Baby chicks are so small, so cute, so soft, and so fun to watch! They are also noisy, dirty, hungry, and needy. Before you give in to the emotions stirred up by their cuteness and bring a dozen home, get prepared for baby chicks so both you and they can be happy. Springtime is the ideal time to add baby…
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How to Make Maple Sugar
Make your own maple sugar with one single ingredient, heat, and a bit of elbow grease. Learn how to transform pure maple syrup into unrefined maple sugar. It is easy to make maple sugar by simply boiling pure maple syrup until it evaporates into a granulated sugar form. Maple sugar has a strong maple fragrance but a mild maple flavor….
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Homemade Apple Scrap Vinegar
Did you know you could make apple scrap vinegar simply by combining apple peelings and cores with water and sugar, and let it ferment until it turns into vinegar? Whether you are processing a bushel of freshly picked apples for applesauce, baked cinnamon apple chip, or apple pie, be sure to save those scraps! The mild apple flavored vinegar is…
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Caring for Molting Chickens
Molting is a natural process birds go through where they lose their old feathers and grow in new ones. Here are tips to help you understand what is happening and how to care for molting chickens. Are your chickens molting? Molting is a natural process birds go through where they lose old feathers and grow in new ones. Growing feathers…
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Homemade Black Walnut Extract for Baking
This homemade black walnut extract will elevate your baking with deep walnut flavor. See how to make this old-fashioned flavoring from foraged black walnuts. There was a time when a bottle of black walnut flavored extract was a common ingredient in the spice cabinet. It has fallen out of favor over the years and has been discontinued by the major…
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How to Harvest and Preserve Black Walnuts
Do you have black walnut trees nearby? See how to take advantage of this foraged food by learning when to harvest and how to hull, cure, and store black walnuts. In our area, black walnuts begin to mature and fall from the branches in late September into October. We try to gather as many as we can daily before the…
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