What You Must Know BEFORE Getting Backyard Chickens (Egg-Laying Hens)

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

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

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Keeping backyard egg-laying chickens is a wonderful way to offset your food costs. It’s also great to know you’re getting healthy eggs from hens that have been fed non-GMO food and had plenty of access to fresh greens, bugs and worms. But there are some specifics you’ll want to know before bringing your chickens home for the best success. Check out today’s podcast for everything you need to know to raise backyard chickens. For more information and shownotes visit melissaknorris.com/297.

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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
0:27.6	it is 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.
0:57.0	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	Welcome to episode 297.
1:29.2	Today's episode is a fun one. We're going to be talking about what you need to know
1:36.8	when you are adding chickens for eggs to your homestead.
1:41.0	Best practices to get started and how to know which way of getting started is right for you
1:47.2	as well as a complete roadmap for adding chickens to your farm or your backyard depending on what your
1:56.4	situation looks like. So I'm really excited for today's episode because this is
2:01.5	a format that so many of you are coming back and
2:04.3	telling me that you really love and you are learning a lot from and that is our
2:10.1	member consults. So what you'll be listening today is one of the members of the pioneering today Academy
2:17.5	which is my Modern Homesteading membership site
2:21.0	and so if you are a member of the Academy, once a quarter we are sending out emails and you can apply to get one of these consult episodes and then you come on and we get to do a one-on-one
2:36.8	consult which is really fun and then it also becomes a podcast episode so that you guys can get in on this information too. So if you're already
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