How to Grow a Homestead

Some may remember that I was very interested, last spring, in incubating eggs and having my chicks arrive not through the mail but from our own hens.  I bought an incubator (after failing to build one) and made several attempts to hatch my own.  My success rate was never more than 30%. Thankfully, one of my hens did a much better job, sat 9 eggs (not … Continue reading the story "Spring Expectations"