Dreaming of your own laying hens?
Chickens are one of the best animals you can keep on your homestead or even your backyard!
A small flock of laying hens can provide eggs, keep bugs down, and provide years of enjoyment as they cruise around your lawn.
But the big question is, where do you start?

Start Right Here
With over fifteen years of experience raising laying hens, I'm here to help you confidently bring chickens into your life!
Video Modules
Each topic is covered in depth with videos from here on our small farm in Northern Minnesota.
Comprehensive Curriculum
This course covers everything you could possibly need to begin raising your own laying hens competently and confidently. Check out the example curriculum below!
Practical Skills
We emphasize practical, real world skills in this course. Everything from hatching your own chicks, marketing excess eggs, and even roasting a chicken are discussed and layed out in detail.
Example Curriculum
Everything you need is right here.
You could spend hours researching and gathering information from different sources before you feel ready to get your own chickens.
With this course, all that work is done for you. It is your one stop shop to learn everything you need to be a knowledgeable and responsible owner of these wonderful animals.
Enrollment is Currently Closed
The Chicken Keeping course opens up for enrollment on April 2nd 2024.
Be sure to sign up below for e-mail updates and we'll remind you when enrollment opens. You'll also receive a special discount code.
Meet Your Instructor
Kelsey Wulf is a small farmer and homesteader based in North Western Minnesota.
She has over fifteen years experience with chickens including hatching hundreds of eggs with school children, raising chickens for meat and eggs, and selling eggs at local markets.
You can learn more about her at the Rough and Tumble Farmhouse blog and YouTube channel.
Not Ready for chickens?
If chickens aren't in your future just yet but you are interested in gaining more hands-on, old-fashioned skills
then check out what else we have to offer from the Farmhouse.