Raising Chickens 101: Everything the New Egg-Laying Chicken Owner Needs to Know

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode twelve of the Roots and Refuge Podcast. Today I’m going to be taking a deep dive into raising backyard egg-laying chickens. I know this is a pretty introductory topic, however, I have heard so many new people entering into this homesteading lifestyle lately, and backyard chickens are their entry point, so I want to be sure it's covered well.

As you know, my love of homesteading started at a very young age, and I did a lot of research before I even began my actual adventures. Egg-laying chickens were something I read up on a lot, and truth be told, the information I found made starting seem daunting.

It’s my desire to share my experiences and make this lifestyle very approachable to those just entering in. So sit back and enjoy this podcast as I chat all about raising egg-laying chickens.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to the Roots and Refuge podcast. My name is Jessica Sowers and I am your host.
0:10.6	My friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too. And here on our podcast, we talk about all things
0:16.2	homesteading, food growing, gardening, raising animals, raising a family on a farm, and just overall living
0:22.5	in a more mindful way. My husband, Jeremiah, and I are homesteading on 27 acres in the Midlands
0:28.1	of South Carolina. We've been sharing our homesteading journey on social media for the last 10 years.
0:33.8	And my hope is to be able to educate you on homesteading, maybe share some of my mistakes so that you
0:39.3	could avoid them as well as inspire you because I do definitely experience this homesteading life through
0:45.9	rose-colored glasses. It is such a romantic way of living for me and I would not choose to do life
0:51.9	any other way. This is truly my dream come true. And I love to be
0:55.7	able to offer a seat at my table that maybe you could take something away and fuel you in your own
1:01.0	homesteading journey. So today I want to talk about something that is kind of broad, kind of introductory,
1:08.2	but I know a lot of people right now are looking at getting into chickens.
1:13.7	And I want to kind of just do an overview of a chicken keeping one-on-one for all of you
1:19.2	new chicken tenders out there.
1:21.6	I was a crazy chicken lady before I had ever really actually held a chicken.
1:26.6	Been very much around chickens.
1:28.5	I'd seen them obviously around. I lived in town, so I didn't see that many. The town I lived in
1:35.2	was not super friendly back then towards people keeping chicken. So it was not common for like
1:43.7	neighbors and stuff to have them. But of course,
1:46.0	I'd like visited farms and seen chickens out scratching in the yard and I had gone to the fair,
1:51.6	the state fair and seen the chickens that were brought in to show. And I was just wildly obsessed
1:57.4	with having chickens for years before I was actually able to have them. I did tons of
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