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Eggs the Real Red Pill – Epi-3629

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Today we dive into a topic that starts simple but quickly becomes a full-blown red pill moment—raising chickens and producing your own eggs. At first, it seems like an innocent step toward self-sufficiency. Get a few birds, collect some eggs, enjoy better food. But before you know it, you’re staring straight into the cracks of the system. You realize grocery store eggs are garbage, regulations exist just to control you, and suddenly, you’re bartering with neighbors, dodging stupid local ordinances, and questioning everything you thought you knew about food, supply chains, and independence. We’ll break down why eggs are the … Continue reading →

Back Yard Chickens on Small Properties – Epi-3158

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Today we are going to take a look at keeping chickens in small back yard situations.  There are a lot of people that want chickens but are afraid they don’t have enough space or can’t do it “ethically”.  No one wants to have miserable chickens.  Thing is when done right a small flock can be kept in a small foot print, everything can be clean and function beautifully.  And yes your birds can be happy. When I was a kid my grandparents kept their birds in a coop and run arrangement with “evening release” for about the last 90 minutes … Continue reading →

Incubating Geese and other Water Fowl with Maggie Laverman – Epi-3054

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Maggie Laverman is a prepping, homeschooling mother of four boys who lives in central Iowa. In 2017, she and her husband purchased an old junkyard for cash and have been fixing it up and making it their dream homestead and prepper haven ever since. Besides doing most of the construction themselves, the family raises pastured hogs, geese, ducks, meat chickens, and laying hens on their lovingly named farm, Cluck Cluck Goose. Maggie and the boys have been incubating and hatching various species and breeds of poultry for local customers and have even enjoyed hand-raising and placing guard geese in the … Continue reading →

These Chicks are Beautiful – New Bantam Chicken Cross

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We crossed our Rooster (Self Blue Old English Game Bantam) with our (Buff Orpington Bantam Hen). The results are beautiful chicks. I am not sure how they will look as they grow out but man they are stunning right now. If the Odysee video does not play well for you the back up YouTube version is here.

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Episode-2817- Choosing Chicken Breeds Based on Homestead Goals and Intrinsic Characteristics

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In some ways chickens are like WordPress Plugins.  What do I mean by that?  Man and chicken go back so far that no matter what you really want, someone has likely already bred a chicken breed that does that.  Different breeds have different intrinsic characteristics.  In permaculture any living element is analyzed for a few different things but one is intrinsic characteristics. For this discussion let’s break down and define those words Intrinsic – belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing Characteristic – a distinguishing trait, quality, or property In other words some animals and further some … Continue reading →

Episode-2733- The Case for Bantam Chickens

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I put out a little video yesterday about the progress of our Bantam Chickens at Nine Mile Farm.  I just love the personality of these pint sized chickens and they are coming along nicely.  Someone asked this question in the comments section… Why bantams and not full size chickens? They are small and lay small eggs. I would think that they would be best for someone with limited space? It is a totally reasonable question.  There are really two angles in it though.  One is some reality, they do lay smaller eggs and they are good for someone with limited … Continue reading →

Episode-2648- Raising Meat Chickens with Shelby DeVore

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Shelby DeVore is an animal expert, avid gardener and the founder of the website Farminence. Shelby has a bachelor’s degree in Animal and Dairy science, a Master’s degree in Agriculture and Natural resources management. Before founding Farminence, Shelby taught high school agriculture courses. She has taught courses covering a wide variety of agricultural topics, including plant and soil science, hydroculture, greenhouse management, large animal science, small animal science, poultry science, natural resources management and wildlife biology. She has over 20 years of experience raising livestock and gardening. She currently lives with her husband and two (soon to be three!) children … Continue reading →

New Videos – Aquaponics – Tree Collards – Baby Chicks and Polts and Zoodles

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In this first video we check out some stuff in the aquaponics and aquatics systems, including Tree Collards that you can order at projecttreecollard.org We also look at the progress of the white Hubbard squash. Watch the bees working the Pickerel Rush and see the recent failure of the aquatic system and our temporary work around. ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ Next in Season Three – Episode 18 of The Duck Chronicles we have a duckless duck chronicle episode because the new babies are here.  Today we have to intercept the mail lady to get the birds out of the truck early in … Continue reading →

The Permaculture Chickens Kickstarter

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Justin Rhodes who is a long time member of the TSP Community has a kickstarter initiative on raising your own back yard chickens the Permaculture way. Tell you what guys he must be doing something right because he has backing from folks like, Pat Foreman, Jim Adkins and Joel Salatin.  I have personally backed his Kickstarter as well and wanted to let you guys know about it. You can learn more and see the trailer at Justin’s Kickstarter Campaign.

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Episode-1450- TSP Homestead Lessons and Planning – Fall 2014

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This is a great time of the year to look back at 2014 and begin fall/winter planning as well.  2014 was a big and very active year at the TSP ranch. It also saw the launch of PermaEthos, AgriTrue, the TSP Wiki, SchoolStupidity.com and now we will soon be releasing  GenForward.com. While I will talk a little bit about those things today I really want to focus mostly on the on the ground homestead improvements and lessons.  We now have a very large flock of chickens and a pretty good sized group of ducks.  The exciting part is our ducks … Continue reading →