Baby chicks fighting over red wigglers 🤣.

Incubated 27 eggs, 21 hatched.

15/15 of my eggs hatched, the other 12 were from a friend's farm - wanted to diversify the genetics on the farm & get more egg colors!

#permies #permaculture #chickens #homestead #healthyliving

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I will be shipping fertilized eggs to bitcoiners on nostr only - hopefully by next year as these fuckers grow & start laying!

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so fun!

My husband and I are going to start keeping chickens this year. Do you have any advice for someone new to chickens?

Mix your own feed.

Clean water = healthy birds, have multiple water locations.

Prepare a lot of mulch to give them as bedding.

Prepare another mulch pile for them to dig around in for bugs & worms but importantly, to dump their dirty water & to clean their feeders & waterers. You don't want mud & broken down mulch which birds have lived on makes for potent garden compost!

Electric fencing from premier 1 the heavy duty double pronged, got a speedrite solar energizer bc @rafa told me to 🫡.

I definitely needed that mulch tip. Our property gets really muddy when it rains. It’s like walking through a swamp.

Years ago he didn’t raise some. I’m going to try to incubate eggs again. 🥚

Fuck yes brotha!

Cute little fockers