Happy Hen Farms

This is a new journey for me here at Homesteadblogger!!

Hello~

My area in homesteading are chickens and saving money on fuel.  I am looking into getting back into the kitchen and cooking more dinners from scratch.  I hope I will be able to journal about our chickens and what I am doing in this area of homesteading.  I look forward to seeing everybody else's blogs.

We have 26 hens.  We had 27 but one died.  We think it was a blowout that killed her.  My boys were very very sad over this.  She was their favorite.  Right now we have a Turken who is being very bad right now.  She keeps pecking the eggs and busting them.  So she may be taking a trip to the ax block soon if she doesn't change things around.  I guess we will wait and see what happens.  All the other hens are not doing that.  One of them would make a great mom.  She is a brooder and will carry her eggs under her wing.  We have to fight her to get the eggs.  We do not mind a bit.  I will try to post some pics of our chickens soon.  Right now they are out in our yard enjoying the time out of their coop.  Our egg production went down alot because of the cold winter.  Right now it is warm and our egg production has gone back up.  Whew!!  I thought I was going to have to go the store and get some eggs which I didn't want to do at all.  How many of you feed your hens feed?  My brother in law do not feed theirs at all.  They have them roam around their property freely.  They are not fed anything.  They fend for themselves and get fed that way.  I am not sure how they do it.  So I am wondering if you feed them or have them fend for themselves.  This would save us money on feed.  Thanks for reading!!

Blessings~

Holly