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Adam Parks: How To Select & Prepare Sustainably-Raised Meats

What specifically should you look for when choosing a provider to buy your meat from?

Additionally, most folks don't realize how important the butchering process is to how well meat tastes. What qualities are important to look for in a butcher?

Former rancher and current meat-repreneur, Adam Parks, joins us for this week's podcast to give practical guidance on these questions, as well as recipe and cooking tips for how to get the most out of the meats we eat. After all, if you go to the trouble to select the healthiest product and get the best butchering, you want to ensure the meals you make from it are prepared well, too.

Adam Parks: How To Select & Prepare Sustainably-Raised Meats

by Adam Taggart

What specifically should you look for when choosing a provider to buy your meat from?

Additionally, most folks don't realize how important the butchering process is to how well meat tastes. What qualities are important to look for in a butcher?

How to Make a Chicken Waterer

by Phil Williams

I use overhead chicken waterers that my chickens cannot foul. I am going to describe how to build your own in less than five minutes for between $13-$16. These waterers work great to deliver clean water to your flock. A 2 gallon waterer will last about a week for six chickens. I use (2) for…

How to Make a Chicken Waterer

by Phil Williams

8 Ways to Use Chickens in the Garden

by JW

If you are contemplating the idea of getting started with backyard chickens, here are a number of great ways chicken can help in your garden and build better soil.

www.theprairiehomestead.com/2015/02/chickens-in-the-garden.html

Also check out the Backyard Chicken Group for other ideas and interesting conversations.

8 Ways to Use Chickens in the Garden

by JW

If you are contemplating the idea of getting started with backyard chickens, here are a number of great ways chicken can help in your garden and build better soil.

www.theprairiehomestead.com/2015/02/chickens-in-the-garden.html

Also check out the Backyard Chicken Group for other ideas and interesting conversations.

How to Treat an Egg Bound Chicken

by Phil Williams

I had a problem with one of my laying hens the other day. Denise noticed that she was sitting and looked lethargic, with her eyes slowly opening and closing. Normally, the hens are very active, scratching and pecking anything that moves. When I came over to look at her, she looked like she was trying to lay. Her tail feathers were going up and down like she was trying to get it out, then she would sit frequently on the ground like she would if she were trying to lay an egg. She was walking kind of gingerly, like she was in pain, and waddling a little bit like a penguin.