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Renting Chickens

August 31, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

A recent trend, coming out of the enthusiasm for backyard chickens, has been to rent chickens. The basic idea is a company comes to your house, sets up a coop and run, and gives you feed, grit, and oyster shells (everything you need to get started with backyard chickens) – all for a set monthly fee. […]

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Selling Farm Fresh Eggs

August 29, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Because of the small size of our flock, 3 birds, my wife and I eat almost all the eggs they produce.  When we occasionally build up a small supply, 6 eggs or so, we’ll give them to a friend or a neighbor.  We haven’t sold a single egg and don’t have any intention of doing […]

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Grilling a Whole Chicken on a Propane BBQ

August 26, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

I understand all sorts of people are interested in chickens and that for many they are considered more pets than a food supply.  For us, we consider them half-pets and half-food and, as part of that, intend to eat our chickens in the fall. I’ve said to friends in the past that I feel as a […]

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How to Pay International Contractors

August 24, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Introduction Hiring offshore workers has been a prominent feature of globalization for years.  An ever-increasing number of companies have decided to tap into the vast pool of talent available beyond the U.S. borders.  Hiring this way is different, and it’s natural to feel nervous about it the first time.  “How do I find workers?”, “how […]

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Chicken Digestive System

August 22, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

It’s worthwhile getting a basic understanding of how chickens consume food.  This can be worthwhile to try to identify problems and to understand why we provide them with grit. Beak Roughly analogous to our mouths, this is how the chicken gets food into her body.  A number of the things we do with our teeth can’t be […]

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Surprising Chicken Behaviors

August 19, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

There were a number of things that I didn’t expect when we were first planning to get chickens. This post details some of the behaviors that were a surprise to me. Healthy Chickens As I mentioned in a post about getting your first chickens, I got some advice from a local farmer – who offers chicken […]

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Chicken Breeds

August 3, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Chickens can be roughly categorized into layers (egg producers), meat breeds, show breeds, and hybrids (crosses between two breeds).  These aren’t absolutes, and most of these breeds are considered dual-purpose, for example Rhode Island Reds can be considered both layers and meat chickens. There are usually trade-offs with each of the breeds, so there isn’t a “perfect breed” – […]

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