Hank Will | Community Chickens

Chickens,Coops,DIY

Keep Predators Away From Your Flock

Your backyard chickens depend on you for their health, housing and safety, and, in exchange, they will supply eggs, entertainment, pest control, fertilizer, meat and more. You should anticipate losing a bird to predation occasionally, but these tips will help keep your flock safe from a wide variety of predators. 1. If you raise your […]

Chicks,Eggs

Hatching Chicken Eggs and Caring for Chicks: Incubator, Brooder and Feed Basics

By Oscar Hank Will III — Feature photo by Vicki Reid Hatching chicken eggs and raising chicks isn’t as difficult as you may think. People have been doing it for thousands of years without the technology we have available today. Whether you actually incubate fertile eggs or simply purchase day-old chicks, there’s every reason to […]

Chickens

Cleaning and Packaging Poultry Humanely

by Hank Will — Photographed by Suzanne Griepentrog At the end of the original Community Chickens Project in 2009, headed up by the editors of Grit and Mother Earth News magazines, Grit editor, Hank Will invited several project contributors to his Osage County Kansas farm to teach them how to humanely clean and package the […]

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