This page was planned as a gallery of our chickens, but you can also follow these links to learn about our goals for breeding our homestead flock, or read other posts about chickens.
Pages to come for our chickens:
The Standards – Big Red, Sgt. Rock, Hopalong Cassidy, Harlot. Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, Buff Orpingtons, Black Australorps, Silver-laced Wyandottes. Developing black sex-links.
Silkies – Fidget and Pearl
Silky crosses – Randy, Rosie, Rowdy and “all the kids”
Mention of my other chickens, Japanese Bantam, Partridge rock bantams, silkies, red sex-links, speckled sussex
Eventually develop a list of links to particular informational posts:
Breeding goals for developing the homestead flock
Feeding the homestead flock
Broody hens and raising chicks
Growing fresh food for chickens
Egg-laying
Hi Rosendo, thanks and I appreciate it. Nice rundown of the basics, btw. And I actually did look at your video.
But fact is, this is a not-for-profit website. I set it up out of my own pocket and run it just because … well, I wanted to. 
It’s a tremendous amount of work, but I hope that someday it will be a great resource and enjoyable place to visit for people just like me. That’s all I’m really aiming for. So I’m not really pushing SEO at this point, though I do “optimize” most of my posts. The pages … well, I’ve got 40+ pages, and the site is only a little over a month old. They just aren’t all written yet. But I’ll get there. From an SEO standpoint, and maybe a visitor’s standpoint, I should probably just hide them all until they are finished, but I set them up so I’d have a map of where I want to go, and people’s comments let me see what pages people are interested in so that I can develop them first. I might look into your plan later though. I do make most of my money online in other ways, and I’m intrigued at your idea. Just … busy busy busy right now, and in the foreseeable future. Thanks though, and good luck to you!
With havin so much content do you ever run into any proeblms of plagorism or copyright violation? My blog has a lot of unique content I’ve either authored myself or outsourced but it looks like a lot of it is popping it up all over the web without my permission. Do you know any ways to help reduce content from being ripped off? I’d really appreciate it.
I haven’t checked on this blog recently (though I was amused to find just today that one of my VIDEOS actually is associated with a prominent news site!).
However, I do run several monetized blogs on different topics, and I have found one site that has copied about 98% of my material … in fact, their site is pretty much made up of my site. It posts to their page the day after I publish. I’m following the protocol of contacting their webhost, but unfortunately it’s a foreign company and they have purchased anonymity protection. I’m going to be forced to take the next step, which is to report them to Google. Their website is a for-profit based on Google Adsense. Google frowns on that sort of thing, and generally the site will be pulled within a few days.
I would advise contacting the webmaster but, if that person doesn’t reply or comply, notify their advertisers. Unfortunately, it does happen a lot …
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Nice post at Chickens | | A Homestead Heart. Great to read about how you handle breeding your flock!
Just wanna say thanks for your posting. The information about chickens is especially interesting to me, trying to decide what to raise. Bless you for sharing!
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Good post however I was wondering if you could write a litte more on this subject? I’d be very grateful if you could elaborate a little bit further. Bless you!
I’ll put my attention to it as soon as I can. You didn’t ask any specific questions … but my plans for my flock as far as breeding, and the way I feed them are probably what might be of most interest to homesteaders? Thanks for your kind words.
I used to live near the sea at portsmouth/southsea and used to love feiedng the swans and of course hearing them! They are so beautiful though apparantely you need to be carefel as if they are flying over you, you need to duck as their wings are so strong! We are in yorkshire now so no swans (well. maybe by the sea but we right in the mainland!)
Your enthusiasm is fatasntic, please remember living within the city/county you are required by county/state law to have a fence around you bee hives, and know that you can do some damage to area bee keepers bees by not properly caring for your hives and the virus’s they can bring and spread and destroy hives, which can house up to 10,000 bees. Also are going organic with your fruit tree’s, watch for aphids, coddling moths, mites, earwigs, etc that again can cross over to neighbors tree’s and infest them and damage as well.Happy to see you downsize and minimize- simplicity is the ultimate sophistication!
Thanks so much for the info. I’m not really ready to start keeping bees (still in the process of downsizing) and before I do anything I usually research it in a lot of detail, but you brought up points I hadn’t thought about. I’ll definitely be careful about that. I’ll look for local beekeepers and talk to them first too. I had friends among local beekeepers where I used to live, and would have been able to go to them for help, but I haven’t met anyone here yet. I’ll keep an eye as far as the other kinds of infestations as well. So far I haven’t had too many problems there.
Thanks again!
We have 3 chickens, and they really are the easiest to care for. They can be pesky if they get into your landscaping, or cruise over to the neighbors and eat their newly planted corn, but for the most part, they are nice to have around. (The neighbor actually likes them because they keep the bugs out of the garden)They produce three eggs per day (like clockwork), and that is more than enough for our family of three, with some to give away at the end of each week.
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Thanks for the advice. They’ll be inside for a while and only be around the other hens during supervised free-ranging time. Hopefully all goes well, I had to re-home a terrible hen a couple weeks ago after months of picking on the other 5 girls. My cochins are pretty sweet, but the Speckled Sussex get rowdy. *crossed fingers*
You’re welcome if I could help. Your girls sound like they are following what’s expected for their breeds. Cochins normally are sweet, but yes, Speckled Sussex are … yeah, less calm, LOL. SS are NOT a breed for me, I’ve found. Good luck with yours!
I have 3 hens. Little chicks runinng around are not an option if you don’t have roosters. My girls are very low maintenance. I let them free range in a fenced in yard most days. They do not jump fence. Predators (and I am backed up to a forest) are not a problem, but I have proofed my run. The girls are low maintenance and fun to have and beneficial to my garden and yard. 1 buff orp. and 2 speckled sussex.
You’re fortunate … my chickens won’t stay fenced (except Red … my main rooster … for some reason he is “fence challenged” and can’t figure out how to go through even LARGE fence openings. The property ranges a way, and I do have occasional predator losses, but usually only the chicks are vulnerable. Hawks and cats are my biggest problems, and they come over the fence into the yard even if the chickens don’t stray. Glad to hear you are enjoying your girls.
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I love to read about chickens on people’s farms. I hope you’ll post more!
Looking forward to reading more – very interested in how you feed them, and how you get them to set on eggs!
Thanks for the website. Found it while searching for info on raising chickens. I appreciate the articles you’ve done on that topic, look forward to reading more. We’re hoping to get started with our flock next year, trying to decide on breed/s. So far I just know we want buff orps. Gotta love em!
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I live in Denver, CO and we can’t keep chciekns, w/out a permit at least!!! Apparently, in Denver, one can keep up to FIFTY pigeons w/out a permit, can have dogs way bigger than I’ll ever be, have cats who come pee in my children’s sand box, but no chciekns! I, personally, was not about to keep with stupid laws (I can barely handle the semi-ok ones) so I have 2 chciekns in my backyard and I cannot wait for the day when animal control comes knocking on my door. I will not go down w/out a fight and that will be the incentive for me to mobilize the troops and have this stupid law changed for good.
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Thanks, Chris. Actually this page may disappear, I only named it to keep a place, and I’m planning to branch out a bit more so I may or may not keep all the pages I originally created. But yes, “Chickens” is boring, LOL … but I needed the title to fit on the tabs and be descriptive. Hopefully the post titles themselves are a little more engaging most of the time.
As far as the spammers — you should see what I delete! I spend more time deleting spam before it gets posted, and the notice that I receive for each one via email, than I do posting. I’m going to look for a better step to stop it. I don’t like to make genuine readers jump through hoops, but I am getting literally hundreds of spam a day that never show up on the blog. You’d think they’d give up since I NEVER give links away, unless it appears to be a genuine comment from a related site. Some of the posts look a little odd because a lot of the comments have been removed, and you only see part of the conversation. I don’t know if my server “lost” them or the posters removed them themselves? But I have noticed that happened.
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I’m not quite sure what you mean. If you are interested in being paid to write for the blog, I can’t pay for any content. And if you mean a paid commenter or something like that, I wouldn’t want that. If you want to do a guest post, that would be possible, if your post is relevant to our topics. Let me know?