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Your Hens Happy The magazine of modern homesteading & Small Stock Journal Volume 101 • Number 2 MARCH/APRIL 2017 PLUS: Getting Started with Chickens ADVICE FOR BUYING DAIRY GOATS SURVIVING POWER OUTAGES FOOD, WATER, ENTERTAINMENT CROPS YOU AND SPACE CAN START TO PLANT NOW How To Make Your Hens Happy $4.99 US • www.countrysidenetwork.com CAPTURE Y OUR COUNTRYSIDE... AND SHARE IT WITH US FEATURED PHOTO Apricot blossoms. — George Palmer, Oklahoma My little sister, Agatha, snuggled up with our Angora rabbit, Misael, and looking at Countryside magazine. Her newest vocabulary words are sheep, cow and “sicken” (chicken). — Mary Bowen, Idaho My chicken and pig at Twisted Iron Ranch. — Mark Crain, Tennessee Welcome the newest addition to our little farm family. She is a little doll. — Kenneth Johnson, Michigan My cabin, hand built by my dad and Jeremy. — Becky Robinson, Pennsylvania This is Smudge. We found him outside when he was about This bluebird is a frequent visitor to my backyard. I can tell 3 days old, along with six siblings. — Liz Meyer, Wisconsin that he is the same bird that's been around for several years by the little tuft of white feathers that stick out by his neck. — Ruth Zook, Pennsylvania COUNTRYSIDE IS PROUD TO PRESENT AN ON-GOING PHOTO CONTEST. SEND US PHOTOS FROM YOUR HOMESTEAD— each issue’s “Featured Photo” will receive a FREE COUNTRYSIDE T-shirt! E-mail your photo(s) as a jpeg attachment(s) to [email protected] with “Capture Your Countryside” in the subject line, be sure to include your name, mailing address, phone number and a brief description. Or mail photo(s), including your name, mailing address, phone number and a brief description, to “Capture Your Countryside,” 145 Industrial Drive, Medford, WI 54451. Any photos received will become the property of Countryside Publications and can be used at any time. Countryside Publications retains the right to publish and/or reproduce any and all photos submitted in future issues or publicity, with or without mention of source. March/April 2017 Contents 36 A Guide to Using Steam ANIMALS & LIVESTOCK Canners 76 Buying a Dairy Goat This century-old practice is still A few rules to know before you effective if you know the invest in your first dairy goat. fundamentals. 82 My Heiland Coos 40 Tunisia Scottish Highland cattle can be Recipes from homesteaders in an exceptional, and hairy, this rural island area. breed idea. HOMESTEAD IMPROVEMENT 86 Let’s Talk About Losing Bees 46 Building a Portable Beekeepers around the world are 24 Chicken Coop experiencing more loss than Step-by-step instructions for usual, and it can be hard to talk building your own chicken about. tractor. 90 A Goat Birthing Kit 52 Adding a Metal Roof Spring often means an When it’s time to replace your introduction to raising young roof, metal can often be the most animals on your homestead. affordable and effective option. Here are a few tips for birthing 56 Site Planning goats. Knowing which way to build COUNTRY LIFE your home or buildings can save 94 Key Words in the Country you big on energy costs. Words that city slickers use are LOST SKILLS often different than what we use 82 in the country. 58 Homesteading Hack #4 Getting rid of flies in the house GRASSROOTS 4 Capture Your Countryside can be as easy as a few pennies in 100 We Prepare, But We Are Inspiring pictures provided by a plastic bag. Not Preppers our readers. 60 Ready, Aim, Click It’s not about what you are 12 Country Conversation & Taking a good photograph will hiding from, but what you are Feedback help you sell goods and capture heading toward. life around your homestead. 16 Bookstore AFTER CHORES 64 Surviving Spring Power FIELD & GARDEN 104 Book Review: Gardening for Outages Butterflies 20 Don’t Wait on Winter Waning It’s all fun and games until the Butterflies can be a beautiful There are several crops you power goes out. What you need addition to your garden if you can start today in your garden to know to stay safe. or field. can attract them with the right COVER STORY plants. 24 Find a Sweet Spot for Growing Eggplants 68 Making Your Hens Happy IN EVERY ISSUE It’s not rocket science, but These versatile fruits don’t have 104 Almanack knowing a few tricks can to be bitter. 108 Marketplace help your chickens stay happy 110 Breeders Directory/Classifieds 28 pH: What’s the Big Deal? and productive. Knowing your soil’s pH level 72 Starting Off Right with will help you determine what On the cover Chickens to grow. If you’re thinking about adding 30 Ticked Off chickens to your homestead, What you need to know to stay we have the basics lined up for tick-free this summer. you to follow. IN THE KITCHEN Two happy chickens 34 The COUNTRYSIDE Cookbook meet up just outside Classic recipes from the a coop. Learn more Countryside Cookbook. on page 68. 8 || COUNTRYSIDE & SMALL STOCK JOURNAL COUNTRYSIDE :: A LETTER TO READERS In a Word, Thanks Thank you. It’s the least I can say to all the readers who have hung with us the past few years. In my tenure here, we have changed a lot, from the paper we print on to the Volume 101 • Number 2 type of content we are publishing. March/Apil 2017 Perhaps I never did really stop and explain why. COUNTRYSIDE & SMALL STOCK JOURNAL Certainly, it had nothing to do with JD Belanger’s legacy. Includes Small Stock Magazine Founded RYAN 1917 by Wallace Blair and Countryside His words of wisdom and foundation of this magazine Magazine Founded 1969 by Jd Belanger were what I was blessed to inherit. Rather, it had to do SLABAUGH Editor, with simple economics. To stay alive, we had to change. Send your manuscript to: Countryside Editorial (or Countryside [email protected]). The editors reserve the right to select and Our advertisers demanded higher-resolution paper, which edit letters/articles/photos to be printed. The opinions and caused us to use shinier paper. To maintain our audience advice given here are not necessarily those of the Publisher. numbers, which drives subscriptions and advertising, we had to diversify our content. No longer could we get away with risking stories PUBLISHER that alienated readers. Google, Facebook and digital media are taking Mike Campbell a lot of our advertisers, and we had to refocus, and change the things that would guarantee that we have a future going forward. What has OFFICE MANAGER Ellen Soper maintained in this magazine is our sense of dedication to truth, to self- reliance, to homesteading and to ensuring that new generations of EDITOR homesteaders have access to the same information as their ancestors. Ryan Slabaugh Just delivered slightly differently. [email protected] EDITORIAL ASSISTANT On that note, there is a new change coming. This will be my last issue as Anne-marie Ida editor of the magazine. I will be moving on to become the GM of Acres [email protected] U.SA., a publication dedicated to eco-agriculture, to ensuring that the food of the future is raised with future generations in mind. We believe that if FULFILLMENT we take care of the soil, we take care of the earth, and the benefits of these Lori Adams, Chris Barkley, Laura Ching, Samantha Ingersoll, Ann Tom practices will last for generations. DESIGN MANAGER So I’ll end how I started. To all the readers and advertisers who stayed Afton Pospisilova with us, cheered us on and supported the changes, I hope these words ART DIRECTION & DESIGN suffice: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Malisa Samsel You can now reach me at [email protected]. A new team of editors, ADVERTISING OFFICE Steph Merkle and Pam Freeman, have been involved in our digital products for 1-800-551-5691 years, and will be stepping into this role starting with the next issue. DISPLAY ADVERTISING Alicia Soper [email protected] Our Philosophy Clint Lindell [email protected] It’s not a single idea, but many ideas and attitudes, including a reverence for nature and a preference for country life; a desire for maximum personal self-reliance and creative Kelly Weiler leisure; a concern for family nurture and community cohesion; a belief that the primary [email protected] reward of work should be well-being rather than money; a certain nostalgia for the supposed simplicities of the past and an anxiety about the technological and bureaucratic Printed in the U.S.A. complexities of the present and the future; and a taste for the plain and functional. Countryside & Small Stock Journal COUNTRYSIDE reflects and supports the simple life, and calls its practitioners homesteaders. (ISSN 8750-7595; USPS 498-940) is published bi-monthly by Countryside Publications, 145 Industrial Dr., Medford, WI 54451. Periodicals postage paid at Medford, WI and additional mailing offices. Contact Us: ©2016 Countryside Publications. Phone: 1-800-551-5691 (8:00-4:30 Central) Editorial office: 145 Industrial Dr., Medford, WI 54451, 715-785-7979, Fax: 1-715-785-7414 [email protected]. Subscriptions (U.S. funds): $18 per year; 145 Industrial Dr., Medford, WI 54451 two years, $30: Countryside Subscriptions, 145 Industrial Dr., Medford, WI 54451. Advertising office: [email protected] POSTMASTER: Send all UAA to CFS. Editorial office: [email protected] (See DMM 707.4.12.5); NON-POSTAL AND MILITARY FACILITIES: send address Customer service/book orders: [email protected] corrections to Countryside Subscriptions, 145 Industrial Dr., Medford, WI 54451. www.countrysidenetwork.com 10 || COUNTRYSIDE & SMALL STOCK JOURNAL AVR418-06_8.75x11.375_Layout 1 12/20/16 3:59 PM Page 1 “I’m a bit sad that my fiance and I didn’t know about Limited to the first 2100 Stauer before we got engaged.
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