Raising Chickens: 101. Yeah, I have a dream to live off the land.

Amazing, early in the 19th Century, so many were dreaming to get away from the rural lands, into the urban areas, now many of us now are feeling the strong desire to go back to the ways of nature.

As for me, currently, as far as animals are concerned; I have two dogs and a cat. And I am doing all I can to be a good steward of the pets I own, Elvis and Fox are my dogs and Pesto is my cat. So I have lectured myself, that until they are flee free, cavity free and I am feeding them properly, I can not obtain more animals. But as soon as that is accomplished, well, let me put it this way, I am getting my chicken coop ready. And I just can't wait to get my first free egg as far as I'm concerned, that's the way its meant to be.

So I was happy to see this article from The Farmers Almanac.  Raising chickens for eggs? Let's talk about how to collect, clean, store, and hatch chicken eggs in this fifth installment of our Raising Chickens 101 series .