by McMurray Staff | May 6, 2011 | Baby Chicks, Raising Chickens
[This series is a diary of our experience with raising chickens for our home flock. ] Chick Grit Today, we began adding some grit on top of the baby chicks’ food. The grit is made from small pieces of crushed granite. The chicks will eat some of the grit and...
by McMurray Staff | May 4, 2011 | Baby Chicks, Raising Chickens
[This series is a diary of our experience with raising chickens for our home flock. To see all articles in this series, please visit Home Flock Series.] Weather It seems like our cool/cold snap is over. It’s 72°F outside today with a light breeze, and the...
by McMurray Staff | May 2, 2011 | Baby Chicks, Raising Chickens
[This series is a diary of our experience with raising chickens for our home flock. To see all articles in this series, please visit Home Flock Series.] A man from the post office called at 8:23AM to let us know our baby chicks had arrived. The chicks (all 40 of them)...
by McMurray Staff | Apr 14, 2011 | Chickens, Raising Chickens
One of my favorite tools for containing chickens and ducks is electric poultry netting. This type of fencing goes by several names, such as “electric poultry fence,” “electroplastic netting”, or “electric mesh netting”. One of the...
by McMurray Staff | Mar 15, 2011 | Raising Chickens
Are your chickens laying fewer eggs recently? We know it can be frustrating to have a large flock of chickens and find little to no eggs in their nest boxes. There are a plethora of reasons why the egg laying rate of your flock of chickens is dropping. We’ve...
by McMurray Staff | Feb 22, 2011 | Raising Chickens
There are many good reasons to raise chickens: 1. Fresh Eggs There simply aren’t any eggs fresher than those that you can get if you raise your own chickens. 2. High Quality Eggs and Meat When you raise your own chickens, you manage their food supply, water...
