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Hey, you guys, and welcome to this week's episode of the pantry chat, food for thought.

Today, I am here with a special guest.

I'm going to bring her on in just a second, but we're going to talk about something that is really

important to me to keep this conversation going in the homesteading world. And that is on

taking your backyard chickens and making them more resilient, making them more sustainable in the

world that we're living in right now. You know, it's really easy to think that just because

you have some chickens in the backyard that, you know, you're good to go no matter what happens in the world. I've heard that actually a lot.

I have chickens. I'll just eat eggs, you know. But the reality is, is feed can be hard to get

sometimes. So we're going to be talking about other sources of chicken feed today. So I want to

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