A friend is welcome back to the Old Fashion on Purpose Podcast.

So a topic that we have discussed pretty well, pretty well covered, I'd say, over the last

couple of years, is a topic of chickens. They're kind of the darling of the homestead movement.

Many folks actually got into homesteading because of chickens, and so it's one of those rights

of passages when you are starting to grow your own food and just kind of venture into this old

fashion lifestyle. But I think a lot of the chicken information we've had thus far has been more

of kind of that entry-level point, right? How to get the chickens, how to set up your coop,

how many nesting boxes do you need, that sort of thing. So I know a lot of you have progressed past

that point. Maybe you got your chickens in 2020, and now you have a flock that's three years old,

maybe you've been doing this for a while. And so I wanted to kind of do a chicken 102 class, if you

will. We're going to take chickens to the next level and get into some of the deeper topics that maybe

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