• THE COOP

    Why Start With Chickens?

    Why start with Chickens? Regardless of whether you are a brand new homesteader or a seasoned veteran, whether you have a large farm or an urban garden, it’s likely that you already know, the first livestock for most homesteaders are chickens. This was true for us at Chaos Magik Homestead as well. Truly, before we even knew homesteading would become such an integral part of our lives, we had eggs in an incubator. For us, starting with chickens was a circumstance of convenience, education, and economic practicality. And, for most people just starting out, one or more of these reasons are why they started with chickens as well. CONVENIENCE… Convenience can be broken…

  • ABOUT CHAOS MAGIK

    About Chaos Magik

    Hello! We are Chaos Magik Homestead, and we are enchanted by living a simple and frugal life while pursuing independence, health and happiness… all on ¾ of an acre! Here’s a bit of the pixie dust that brought us here: …It all started with a homeschool science project which included a borrowed incubator, eighteen eggs, a book, a half dozen pallets and a ¼ acre lot in the deep-south, Gulf Coast Region of Mississippi!  Together, my 3 homeschooled children and I incubated our first eggs, hatched our firstclutch of barnyard-mix chicks, and built our first chicken coop out of pallets. And that’s it; we were hooked!   As I began researching…