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What Food Scraps Can Chickens Eat?
Did you know that chickens can happily devour leftover spaghetti? Yes, that’s right! Chickens, who are ever curious, can enjoy table scraps that would otherwise go to waste. But hold...
What Food Scraps Can Chickens Eat?
Did you know that chickens can happily devour leftover spaghetti? Yes, that’s right! Chickens, who are ever curious, can enjoy table scraps that would otherwise go to waste. But hold...

4 Ways to ❤️ Garlic
Garlic can be stored for several months as whole bulbs. It also can be frozen, fermented and preserved in confits.
4 Ways to ❤️ Garlic
Garlic can be stored for several months as whole bulbs. It also can be frozen, fermented and preserved in confits.

What is a Heritage Chicken? Uncovering the Rich...
Did you know that the chicken you buy in grocery stores these days has little in common with the birds that sustained our ancestors? While the modern broiler hybrid chicken...
What is a Heritage Chicken? Uncovering the Rich...
Did you know that the chicken you buy in grocery stores these days has little in common with the birds that sustained our ancestors? While the modern broiler hybrid chicken...

Poultry Processing How-to
Melissa Hemken of Melissahof Hatchery shows how to process chickens with kill cones, automatic scalder and automatic plucker.
Poultry Processing How-to
Melissa Hemken of Melissahof Hatchery shows how to process chickens with kill cones, automatic scalder and automatic plucker.

Coop de Trailer Park
When you pick up your chicks at Melissahof, you’ll notice lots of trailers retrofitted into mobile coops.Melissa blogged about the retrofit process for the American Poultry Association
Coop de Trailer Park
When you pick up your chicks at Melissahof, you’ll notice lots of trailers retrofitted into mobile coops.Melissa blogged about the retrofit process for the American Poultry Association

The Joy of Poultry
As a guest blogger for the American Poultry Association, Melissa wrote about how Melissahof Hatchery was hatched. Read more here on this link.
The Joy of Poultry
As a guest blogger for the American Poultry Association, Melissa wrote about how Melissahof Hatchery was hatched. Read more here on this link.