As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Gail Damerow’s newest book, What’s Killing My Chickens: the Poultry Predator Detective Manual, should be on the shelf of every poultry owner. Whether you are dealing with common predators like raccoons … Read More
Episode 10For the Love of Goats If you own goats, you only get one chance to get fencing right. One of the first things I learned about goats was that they were too smart for me to use a … Read More
by Bethany Staswick “Is that a CHICKEN in your yard?” We get the question all the time as people walk by on the city sidewalk. Yes, it is a chicken. And, in fact, we have ten of them. When we … Read More
Are you thinking about getting chickens or do you already have a flock? This post includes some of Thrifty Homesteader’s most useful posts and videos about keeping chickens… Getting Your Chickens The first step to successfully raising chickens is to … Read More
Whenever people hear reports of contaminated food and worry about the ethics of factory farming, they want to take control of their food in whatever way they can. For many, this means starting a garden, and for more and more, … Read More
Even though I’ve had chickens since 2002, I really don’t feel like I know much about sick chickens. We had them for more than a dozen years before it took more than one hand to be able to count the … Read More
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. When you pick up your first chicks, they will need to stay in a brooder for several weeks. If a mother hen had hatched them, they would spend most of their … Read More
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Gail Damerow’s second edition of The Chicken Health Handbook has been sitting on my shelf for a few months. I was really excited when the publisher sent me a review copy, … Read More
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Did you know that the top five causes of mortality in chickens can be mostly prevented by management? That’s good news for those of us with chickens. At the Livestock Conservancy … Read More
Every winter I see articles like this about a barn fire or other structure that burns down because of a heat lamp. In fact, we almost had two fires here because of heat lamps. Yeah, not just one, but two! … Read More
Thrifty Homesteader was created in 2012 after the publication of my second book, Ecothrifty. The name was coined by one of my followers because I said that I didn’t want anyone to think that they had to be rich to homestead or live a greener life....
