Researching for a chicken plucker to assist in processing of our own meat chickens proved to be difficult. There just are not many reviews written for pluckers that aren’t from the more popular brands or unless the plucker is an Amazon find. Here is our unpaid and honest review of the Extra Large Pro Plucker…
raising chickens
How to Raise Meat Chickens in the First Week
NOTE: What you are about to read may seem ludicrous to you. We are not professionals nor veterinarians. We are resourceful homesteaders using what we have to raise our own food in our own backyard. There may be wiser and better ways to raise meat chickens on the internet. This is simply the Johnson Home…
A One Stop Guide to Raising Your Own Meat Birds
Raising your own meat birds isn’t super difficult but it isn’t exactly easy either. If it is a project that is on your family’s heart, my best suggestion is going to be to JUMP IN. But, try to be mostly prepared! Here is a one stop guide to raise your own meat birds with the…
How to raise Cornish Cross baby birds outside in a chicken tractor protected from the elements
Raising your own meat birds to fill your freezers full of high quality meats means you’ll need to have a plan for how and where you’re going to raise them. From adorable little yellow fluff balls to bulky white dirty birds, meat birds need protection from the elements when raised on pasture. Since their favorite…
Is Raising Turkeys and Chickens Together a Good Idea?
Birds of a feather flock together? Well, when your homesteading vision doesn’t exactly line up perfectly with your resources, you make do with what you’ve got. This year we raised two Bourbon Red turkeys with our backyard flock of laying hens and two Khaki Campbell ducks. Here’s how raising turkeys went for Johnson Home: This…
The Story Behind how the newsletter “Church Clothes and Chicken Toes” got its name
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…
How to Decide if it’s Worth Raising Your Own Meat Birds
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 an emphatic 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…
