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Why Aren’t My Chickens Laying in the Winter
This article contains affiliate links. This means if you click through and make a purchase I may receive a commission, at no additional cost to you. For more information see my disclosures here. Over the summer you were getting an abundance of eggs each day. So many that maybe you didn’t even know what to do with them! Then fall rolled around, and things started to slow down. By December…. you were lucky to find one lone egg in the nesting boxes. What gives?! Just like everything, eggs have a season. There are periods of high production, and periods of slow to no production. It’s all part of a healthy…
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43 Ways to Make Money on Your Hobby Farm
Did you know you could earn a living off of your land? The more you dive into hobby farming and homesteading, the more you realize: there is no “off season.” In other words you complete one task to move to the next, and are constantly shifting your focus based on the time of year. Early springtime means starting seedlings, and hatching chicks. Then planting season begins, which moves to maintaining your gardens, the high egg production of summer time, honey, raising cattle and pigs, cut flowers and manure. As you head into fall, harvest kicks into high gear, canning season and pumpkin season take over – only to be met…
