Every year I judge between 6 and 10 4-H poultry shows for various counties in eastern Iowa. It is always a fun experience to interact with the youth and pass...

Homemade feeds can work and at one point in my life worked well. Between my first and second years of college my parents moved to the warmest part of Idaho t...

2020 marks 50 years that I have raised poultry. It all began in the Spring of 1970 with 4 small ducklings that I lost to a weasel at 6 weeks of age and then...

It has been sometime since I visited this page. I had struggled with what ideas would be the most useful and what would be a waste of time. I had lots of id...

If it is one question I get more than any other in the poultry world it is when do you butcher a traditional non modern meat maker chicken. I keep forgetting...

With all of the news about the burning of the Amazon Rainforest it only seems appropriate for each of us to think about we can do for our own little corner ...

These are definitely changing times for the poultry world. In late June the USPS upped the cost to send a 100 size chick box by in some cases 300%. We sent ...

When I started this operation back in 1988 the goal always was and always will be to not focus on profit but preservation and education.When Linda and I got...

Roots ready to cover to produce slips in 3-4 weeks is shown above. In the early 1990's it seemed Spring was earlier and Fall was early as well and I always ...

I am always searching for the best bedding material for all the poultry that I raise. Growing up in Idaho I got accustomed to using wheat or barley straw for...

The rooster from March 9 now 6 weeks later, healed and breeding again. You can look back at this rooster on the March 9 blog and see how he has made a comple...

We all get busy and think oh what is another day before I do something. Well this week was one of those for me as I had a college concurrent class teachers m...

It is always a risk to set out plants early, but for those of us who have had a long hard winter the first warm days bring out the desire in us to get the se...

Ducks were the first poultry to enter my life, those 4 mixed breed ducklings back when I was 8. They started it all. It will be 50 years this next year a...

Sometimes situations put your mind into gear and make you realize change can just sneak up on you and you you don't even realize how much time has passed a...

Normal planting time for the early spring vegetables here in east central Iowa is sometime in March. Just a week a go it was still getting close to below z...

It has been a long hard winter and the poultry is all anxious for Spring. I hope to start this section as I learn how it works to provide weekly updates on t...