Very true, we have 16 hens, mix of Barred Rock and RI Red. In the summer we have more eggs than we can use, so we sell/barter a few to friends and neighbors. Yesterday I picked up 6 eggs from the coop; it was -10C outside (14F),we don't use artificial light or heat.
Good quality feed is...
Other than cannabis, my most consistently profitable crop (most money for least work) has been garlic. I plant in late fall/early winter, after other production is done. i plant through plastic film mulch, and cover with mulch hay and row cover after a good freeze.
Harvest and cure mid-July...
That's how it's shaking out (cannabis joke) in Canada. Lots of big companies put a lot of money into production, without an adequate channel for distribution. As a result, there is currently a glut on the market.This is made worse by the perception among consumers of the product that the LPs...
Chickens were the first livestock we raised. We 'inherited' a small flock of laying hens when we bought our farm in 2000. The next summer we raised a couple batches of meat birds. They are relatively easy to care for (we day-range our meat chickens and turkeys, snow-free months only),and offer...