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1. Plenty of  Good Light Chickens need at least 14 hours of daylight in a day to trigger their internal clocks to lay. By supplementing light, as is done in commercial production houses, you can trick a chicken’s internal clock ...

We have been raising chickens for their eggs on our homestead almost from the first day we got here six years ago. Chickens are a great starter as far as livestock goes and let’s face it, who doesn’t love farm ...

May 6, 2013 WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? A little trick that I have found to increase egg production around the farm. Want more eggs? Try this method. It just might help your hens lay more eggs, and give you a little ...

December 7, 2012 In the quest for flock improvement and self-reliance, Karma Glos from Kingbird Farm has started breeding her own laying hen replacements. Here she describes how she manages them from hen to egg, and incubator to chick. Previous ...

December 6, 2012 In the quest for flock improvement and self-reliance, Karma Glos from Kingbird Farm has started breeding her own laying hen replacements. Here she describes how she manages them from hen to egg, and incubator to chick. Previous ...

September 12, 2012 We wanted to train our flock to lay in nesting boxes so we can gather and sell as many eggs as we can. Golf balls were one of the things we used to teach our hens where ...

September 10, 2012 This is some b-roll footage from the Voices of Experience video series produced by the NY Beginning Farmer Project at Cornell University in 2008. This clip shows Pierre Dionne of Sojourner Farm collecting eggs and caring for ...