Chickens

A Beginner’s Guide to Raising Backyard Chickens for Eggs

black and white chicken sitting in the snow how to keep chickens warm

How to keep chickens warm in winter

chicken egg incubator full of colorful fertile eggs to be hatched

Chicken Egg Incubation Problems

digital printable forms to track chicken egg incubation chick hatching records

Chicken Egg Incubation Records Printable Forms

How to candle dark shelled chicken eggs

Which chicken breeds lay colorful rainbow of eggs egg basket full of colorful rainbow eggs cream brown blue green eggs

Chicken breeds for a colorful rainbow of eggs

How to Naturally Encourage Egg Laying in Chickens

Kogee the canine chicken keeper how a cowdog helps herd chickens into the coop and even runs inside the coop with the chickens

Kogee the Canine Chicken Keeper: A Chicken Friendly Cow Dog

How to Tell if a Chicken Egg is Fertilized

How to speak chicken book and calendar must have for chicken lovers

How to Speak Chicken Book and Calendar Review

Collage of farm animals to introduce the critters on our Montana homestead

Meet the Critters on Our Homestead

How to clean out a chicken coop in winter tips and tricks for cold weather coop cleaning

How to Clean out the Chicken Coop in Winter

Hello I'm Annie and welcome to our blog!

I was raised in an old farmhouse in the country and taught by three generations of women in my family to cook from scratch, can and preserve food, nurture plants to grow, craft with my hands, and live a simple, meaningful life. Now I'm teaching my own children these skills on our little homestead in Montana. I am a Master Gardener and a Master Naturalist and love helping others learn. I'm sharing these vintage skills here so you too can live a simple, more connected homemade life- one canning jar at a time!