The chicken and the egg.

The article discusses the author's experience of homestead living and raising chickens. Her multi-purpose barn is located in the middle of the back part of the two-acre property. Most of the time, chickens were given only a small amount of scratch feed or cracked corn. The farm uses a crop rotation system. In order to boost hatching, hens are placed in a nest box in a wire cage which hangs above the floor.