Welcome to The Birch Acres Blog Where we will share our experiences, our trials and our errors in raising, breeding, and promoting our favourite heritage breeds of poultry and discuss our homesteading journey in Northern Ontario. Growing up in a small farming community I knew from a very young age (8 years old) that I wanted to raise poultry, at the time it was mostly due to the fact that I could have my own eggs to collect. My husband born and raised in the big city knew not