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Judy's Free Pallet Chicken Coop Step By Step Picture Tutorial

Using reclaimed materials can really bring down the cost of the overall project. I enjoyed looking at all the pictures, truly inspiring. Step by step picture...

Homemade Chicken Treats Recipe For Your Flock

Meyer Hatchery shares a homemade treat for your chickens that is healthy and entertainment for your flock. Click here for the recipe:    

The Hard Part of Homesteading

Click here http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2012/02/the-hard-part-of-homesteading.html  

RABBITS FOR SELF- SUFFICIENCY, recipe list too.

If you want to raise your own meat but don't want or can't have back yard chickens then maybe rabbits will work for you. Rise...

Best Animals for the Small Homestead

If you are ready to start raising your own livestock for meat, eggs and dairy products Life Unplugged has a great article to help...

From Chicks To Laying Hens – Step By Step Guide

Preserving Life at Fern Creek gives a picture tutorial of a step by step guide of how to raise chicks into laying hens. http://preservinglifeatferncreek.com/?p=123  

How To Reduce Your Chicken Feed Bill – Free Scraps

One Hundred Dollars A Month shows people how to use reclaimed food scraps to reduce your chicken feed bill. Click here to read: http://www.onehundreddollarsamonth.com/2012/12/how-to-get-free-food-week-31-reclaimed-food-show-and-tell/    

Chickens The Most Commonly Asked Questions & Answers

Many people have a lot of questions about raising chickens as it is becoming a renewed homesteading skill even in urban areas. The City Chicken...

2 different DIY heaters to keep the chicken's water from freezing.

With winter here anyone raising chickens knows they have to have some way of keeping the water from freezing so the chickens can actually...

Turn a Kids Playhouse into a Chicken Coop

Nice repurpose of a no longer used play house. We are firm believers in reuse, re-do and repurpose so this little gem from onehundreddollarsamonth...

Apple Cider Vinegar 'Holistic Trinity' of Healthy Chickens: Garlic and Diatomaceous Earth.

Click here: http://www.grit.com/fresh-eggs-daily/the-holistic-trinity-apple-cider-vinegar-garlic-de.aspx    

DIY Cinder Block Heater To Keep The Chickens Water From Freezing

If you have chickens then you already know it can be hard to keep them in fresh water in the winter, well with this...

Introducing our Chunnel: the chicken tunnel

http://zucchinimom.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-our-chunnel-chicken-tunnel.html

One Modern Homesteader Discovered The Joys of a Self-Reliant Life

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Modern-Homesteading/Homestead-Life-Jenna-Woginrich.aspx  

Suburban Homesteading Introducing The Exercise Chicken Tunnel

http://zucchinimom.blogspot.com/2012/06/introducing-our-chunnel-chicken-tunnel.html Chicken tunnels allow chickens room to explore and access to the parts of the yard. They can move about and exercise in safety.

Free eBook: The My Pet Chicken Guide to Chicken Care

http://www.mypetchicken.com/backyard-chickens/chicken-care/guide-toc.aspx  

The Double Run Chicken System , Crop Rotation Concept

http://www.ecofilms.com.au/victory-garden-chicken-system/   This is such an amazing idea, almost like common sense.

Quick Tips and Strategies for Raising Rabbits

http://beselfsufficient.net/quick-tips-and-strategies-for-raising-rabbits/  

Wonderful Urban Chickens Facts & Tidbits !

http://www.moneysideoflife.com/chickographic/    

Picture Tutorial: How To Milk A Goat

http://7thundersranch.blogspot.com/2011/05/milking-goats-101.html    

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