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Raising Chickens on our Homestead | Year 1

Hello Everyone and Welcome to our Blog where we share all our Adventures on our Small Homestead in Alberta Canada. We recently decided to start raising chickens as we figured it would be a great family adventure and we would be able to now provide our family with something other than fruits and vegetables from our garden. Before we were able to get our baby chicks we had to find a coop for them. Now you can get just a tiny coop but we knew in the long run that we wanted anywhere from 10-20 Hens so we needed something sufficient in...

How To Keep Chickens Warm in Freezing Temperatures | Northern Canada

Hello Everyone and Welcome to the Blog; If your new here we are a family of 4 who love to Adventure, Garden on our Zone 3B Homestead and of course our newest adventure of raising and keeping chickens in our harsh cold winters. Where we live we can reach temperatures of -50 Celsius and Below with wind chills for several weeks in the winter months. Our Cold temperatures and snow some years start before Halloween in October and can last until End of April. I think I can say that I have officially seen snow in every month of the...

About Us!

Hey Everyone! We are the Alberta Adventurer Family and we are a family of 4 living on the prairies in Alberta, Canada. We love adventure but have slowed down a bit since having the little ones and now are living the life on our homestead. We love to Garden in our Zone 3b garden along with foraging from the many bushes on our property. Since having children we have really started paying attention to our health. We have opted for growing more food and preserving for our long cold Northern winters. We have recently been raising chickens and what an adventure it...

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