preservation Archives - Backyard Poultry

Preserve Eggs

February 20, 2023 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Eggs & Meat

Eggs are a healthy source of protein around the world, and there are a variety of ways to preserve extra eggs. Think dehydrating, pickling, and freezing egg whites and yolks.

The Mystery of Century Eggs

February 14, 2023 · Carla Tilghman · Eggs & Meat

Different cultures, the world over, have found ingenious ways to preserve eggs. Learn the mystery of century eggs.

3 of The Best Dual-Purpose Chicken Breeds

August 17, 2022 · Rhonda Crank · Chickens 101

The best dual-purpose chicken breeds are important on the homestead because they produce both meat and eggs. Breed choice is one of those topics that every chicken keeper has definite feelings about.

Buckeye Chickens: An All-American Breed

July 1, 2022 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Chickens 101

No chicken breed is perfect, but many Buckeye chicken breeders figure they have come close enough with their breed. Breeders extol the virtues of vigor, resilience and disease resistance in a brown egg layer that grows to a solid size.

Water Glassing Eggs for Long-Term Storage

June 8, 2022 · Ann Accetta-Scott · Eggs & Meat

Are you looking for a method for preserving eggs in their whole raw form? If so, water glassing eggs is the most efficient long-term method available.

10 Tips for Fermenting Chicken Feed

June 6, 2022 · Lisa Steele · Feed & Health

Have you given any thought to how fermenting chicken feed can benefit your flock of backyard chickens? Fermenting is all the rage nowadays, both in people foods (think yogurt, sauerkraut, sourdough bread, buttermilk, kimchi, apple cider vinegar, even beer and wine!) and chicken diets as well, although the process has been used for hundreds of years as a food preservation method.

Selective Breeding: How to Breed Chickens

January 4, 2022 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Chickens 101

For those of us who are learning how to breed chickens or teaching others how to breed chickens, you must realize that breeds of poultry cannot be maintained. Your fowl are either improving or degenerating with each passing generation.

Raising Heritage Breed Chocolate Turkeys

November 10, 2021 · Rhonda Crank · Poultry 101

Since we already have heritage breed chickens, we wanted to help other endangered poultry. We settled on Chocolate Turkeys.

The Dorking Chicken and Other Classic Breeds

February 27, 2020 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Chickens 101

Most of the 200 breeds and varieties of chickens that were once common on farms are now considered rare. Including a breed that is part of our history in your poultry operation gives your flock a role in historic preservation and genetic diversity.