Homesteading – Page 7 – Scott Family Homestead

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February 24, 2015

Temporary Chicken Housing

We have moved about 30 minutes away from our first home. The new place doesn’t have a chicken coop, so we needed to set up something temporary. For a few weeks we left them in their coop and visited to feed and water them every other day. While not ideal, it worked out for a

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February 13, 2015

Our New House

*This will be my first post written on mobile, so bear with me please* We are finally getting settled into our new place! We have a lot to do yet, but I wanted to give a little preview. We purchased a new home in January situated in 10 acres in northern Wisconsin. The house was

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Christine

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July 23, 2014

Chicken Run Door

Last fall we built a chicken run attached to our chicken coop. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time before the snow got too deep to add our door. Ryan ended up crawling through our chicken door to get into the run to shovel during the winter months. Keep in mind that door is 12″x12″.

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July 17, 2014

Chicken Tractor Modification

When we initially built the $40 Chicken Coop in May of last year, we thought about putting wheels on it to help with moving it around the yard. Like most projects we get into, however, we were racing to get the coop built before our meat birds were ready to go outside and just didn’t have

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Christine

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June 30, 2014

Baby Chicken Update

We have been so busy with our new addition that I haven’t been able to update the blog about our new chickens! We have 25 meat birds and 10 new layers. We ordered a wide variety of egg layers this time and you can read about their breeds here. Our meat birds are now

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Christine

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April 22, 2014

Transporting Chickens

Since we live in a small town and have a baby on the way, we thought it would be best if we didn’t have a rooster. When we ordered our 15 egg layers from McMurray Hatchery, they threw in a free rare breed chick. They don’t guarantee male or female with that free chick. We

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Christine

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April 1, 2014

Spring Chicks

When we built our coop, we built it to fit 20-24 birds. The run is built for a few more than that. We also have the opportunity to free range the chickens in the evening. They do a great job staying in the yard, with a little help from our blue heelers. Ryan probably never

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Christine

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December 19, 2013

Easy DIY Nest Box

Our little chickies have been laying eggs like crazy! I was told not to expect much this winter because the days are short, and hens typically don’t lay as much in the winter. Well, our hens didn’t get the message. Today 11 of our 15 hens laid eggs. That’s nearly 7 dozen a week

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Christine

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December 6, 2013

Building a Chicken Coop: Part 3

**This is part 3 of a 4 part series. Click here to read part 1 and here for part 2** The chicken coop was missing one major element after we completed part 2: a chicken run! Our girls (and boy) need a place to run around. We were temporarily using the dog kennel as a

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Christine

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September 21, 2013

Stella Needs a New Name

For two months now, I have been worried we have a rooster in our bunch. We are only allowed to have our chickens in town if no one complains, and I am worried that a rooster would ruin that for us. The hatchery we ordered our chicks from guarantees hens, except with the rare breed