Next week I receive my first chicks in 30 years. I went with a heritage breed for both meat and eggs. Buff Orpingtons: 20 females, 2 males, and 1 mystery chick.
Between now and then I'll be building an outdoor brooder, 4'x8' with 2 heat lamps and a digital controller. I'm shocked at what this...
I'm an older man (59) at the edge of the Ozarks who just bought his very first piece of land (2 acres). It's not much land, but it's beautiful and all mine. Thankfully, it has been protected for decades by a loving, six foot tall canopy of briars, so there's good bare land underneath. I've...