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Pioneering Today

Breeding Chickens Naturally: Selective Breeding for Eggs & Chicks for a Homestead Income

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9931 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Breeding chickens naturally using selective breeding for eggs and chicks, either to build up your own flock or to create a homestead income from your chickens. What you need to know about heritage breeds, picking a breeder, where to get started with your flock, and how to create your breeding plan, either for your own flock or business, with best tips for pricing, shipping and more! Get links here https://melissaknorris.com/234 The Pioneering Today Academy only opens for new members a few times a year, get on the waitlist for exclusive goodies https://melissaknorris.com/waitlist

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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,

0:06.4

I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make

0:16.2

sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is

0:28.2

packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.

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

1:06.2

that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash

1:18.2

summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.

1:25.2

You guys, I am super excited to introduce you to today's guests and many of you probably

1:31.6

already know her, but if not you are in for a treat.

1:35.4

So Amy, welcome to the Pioneering Today podcast.

1:39.8

Yay, thank you for having me.

1:42.0

You're so welcome. So I was super blessed Amy sent me her books and I have been

1:47.5

Pouring over them. I wasn't feeling very well this weekend which is the perfect time when a homesteader is not filling well, to curl up with some

1:55.2

tea and some really good books. And I got to go through your chicken book, and I actually gleaned

2:02.1

lots of awesome tidbits. I find usually even if we're really

2:06.4

feel like we've kind of got a handle on something, I always will learn something new and

2:12.1

I learned quite a bit and one of the things that you

2:15.3

really talked about that I haven't seen featured on you know in a lot of

2:19.7

homestead discussions maybe it's just the discussions I've been having, or different things that resources

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