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The 12 Absolute Best Dual-Purpose Chicken Breeds for your Homestead

If you’re a farmer or homesteader, you know that space and time are very limited commodities. Raising chickens for meat and for eggs usually means you’re raising two separate flocks, one for just meat birds, and another for egg layers, and keeping them in separate pens. This adds up to a whole lot of work …

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8 Reasons to Add Rabbits to your Homestead

Rabbits are a wonderful addition to practically any homestead. Due to their small size and quiet nature, they’ll be at home on an urban farm, a suburban homestead, or a sprawling rural farmstead.  We kept rabbits on our small homestead in the city for years. Our neighbors never even knew we had rabbits in the …

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Top Ten Heat Tolerant Chicken Breeds

As a flock owner, there are many factors to take into account when choosing which chicken breeds to have in your flock. One of those factors is your climate. If you live in an area that consistently sees high temperatures in the summer, you’ll need heat tolerant chicken breeds for your flock! Most breeds of chickens do …

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