10 Tips on How to Raise Chickens Like the Pioneers
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Tips on raising chickens without heat lamps, best breeds for cold climates, and how to keep your flock healthy and warm like the pioneers.
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them, |
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| 0:40.0 | Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb, |
| 0:47.8 | but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. |
| 0:56.9 | We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses. |
| 1:02.1 | So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by |
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| 1:26.8 | Welcome everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Melissa from LiskK Norris.com where I blog about aspiring |
| 1:33.2 | your faith and pioneer roots. |
| 1:35.2 | And Lisa from Fresh Eggs Daily is joining me here today. |
| 1:39.4 | And I'm really excited to have her. |
| 1:41.4 | She is another old-fashioned gal right after my own heart and we're |
| 1:45.8 | going to be talking about raising chickens. She is a chicken and duck expert today and |
| 1:51.3 | why that we're going to be talking about that is one it's a free daily food |
| 1:55.7 | source and free is a relative term when you have livestock but you do go to gather your eggs |
| 2:01.5 | that don't have to buy them at the grocery store. |
| 2:03.7 | And we're going to be talking about the ways that the pioneers did them and |
| 2:06.4 | really some old-fashioned techniques and what you really need and what you don't need. |
| 2:09.6 | And this will also be a live video up on my YouTube channel and then it will also be a live podcast. |
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