Chicken, our way
July 8, 2011 in chicken, Food Porn, Humble Garden

As you likely know, we try to grow and enjoy wholesome food at home, making us frugal foodies.
We raise and milk our own dairy goats.

We raise our own laying chickens for eggs.

We are getting a family Jersey cow this fall. We will have cow and goat milk next spring.

I blog about some of that craziness at my homesteading blog Humble Garden.
We source a lot of our red meat as pastured Beefalo meat from Wild Mountain Farm.
This year, in addition to our layer flock, we will be raising between 25 and 50 broiler chickens which we will butcher and freeze for the year!
The video below shows those (the little yellow ones) as well as some fancy chicks – ameraucana which lay blue eggs and purely ornamental chickens – white crested black polish – the ones that look like they have marshmallows stuck to their wee little heads.
Many people here in the US are getting into urban homesteading but run into roadblocks when they try to get some chickens.
I totally support you all and send you all my positive vibes as you fight to regain the right to raise chickens in your space.

I LOVE your photos of the backyard chickens shouldn’t be a crime. ADORABLE! Did you photograph them? I found your site through your post on my friend Jaden’s raised beds on facebook. I’m curious what the tubing in the bottom of your raised beds is for. Watering? Heat? Also, thought you’d be happy to know I’ve been working for the past year to get chickens allowed in our city limits and two weeks ago council voted to allow chickens, pot bellied pigs and goats!
yep all my photography – Jaden is the best!
that tubing is the same you would use for radiant floor heating – its to heat the beds from within with circulating water – we live in a cold area and the idea is to extend our seasons.
That is a tremendous victory! I am so very happy for you all!