Recently, I dubbed my email newsletter “Church Clothes and Chicken Toes” based off a series of random Sunday afternoon posts I’d made on social media about me and my chickens. This is the story of where that name originated. Things that rhyme For starters, it kind of rhymes and I thought it was catchy. If…
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How to Decide if It’s Worth Raising Your Own Chickens for Meat
When it comes to raising your own meat birds to stock our freezer, I often get asked if it is worth it or not. The answer for my family is a resounding YES but that isn’t the answer for everyone. Read on to find out why we think it is worth raising your own chickens…
Chickcozy Automatic Chicken Coop Door Opener Review
Are you a chicken owner who would love to have something more automatic for your flock’s coop door? Something to protect your birds at night and is reliable too? Consider the Chickcozy Automatic Chicken Coop Door Opener. Here is my honest review of this product, the great and the concerns. This post contains affiliate links,…
Reasons Why I love to Repurpose Eggshells for Zero Waste Around the Homestead
If you’ve got laying hens or not, having a close as possible to zero waste kitchen on a homestead is a priority for many homesteaders. Why? Because it teaches us to respect and stretch our resources as far as possible. In this post, you’ll learn a few other ways to use your eggshells to get…
How to Build a Chicken Tractor for Your Meat Birds
Raising your own meat birds in your backyard to process in eight weeks means you will need some sort of protection for them. In this post, you will learn how to build the chicken tractor we have decided works best for our backyard meat birds. This post contains affiliate links, which means I make a…
How to Help Warm Up Your Backyard Birds This Winter With a Boujee Bird Breakfast
My backyard birds are spoiled, I admit it. Okay, maybe not as spoiled as some but mine definitely live a good life. In the winter, some mornings the run is covered in frost and the girls are huddled together under the coop and out of the weather. These mornings I like to make them what…
How to raise Cornish Cross chickens on half an acre backyard
If you’ve ever had even an inkling of a thought about raising meat birds to put on your dinner table, let me encourage you to go for it! Raising Cornish cross chickens in your backyard isn’t hard but it is a commitment. In this post, I’ll share exactly what that looked like for us including…
How to Turn a Bucket into a Chicken Killing Cone for less than $5
May of 2023 was our family’s first experience with a chicken harvest. We learned a lot but thankfully we didn’t suffer the consequences of losing any edible chickens. We studied, asked seasoned homesteading friends questions and best tips, and DIY-ed as much as we could to help the process and save us money. In this…
How to Use Up One Whole Chicken with Zero Waste
One pasture raised chicken, so many uses! This blog post will tell you the ways I use up one chicken to feed our family a few meals, our dog one meal, and the garden too. Zero waste chicken uses? Yes please. This post contains affiliate links and referral codes, which means I make a small…
