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How to Choose the Best Bedding for Your Chickens
There are many bedding options for your birds. Which one is best? ...
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Winter Lighting In The Chicken Coop
Read these handy tips for winterizing your coop, and keeping the girls occupied during the long winter months....
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5 Tips To Keep Snakes Away From Chicken Coops
Making sure your chickens are safe should be one of the top priorities of any keeper......
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What To Know Before Building Your Own Chicken Coop
Are you looking to build a coop for your first flock of backyard chickens? This article has everything you need......
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Coop Odors: The Stinky Truth and How Nutrition can Help
Sometimes your coop can get a little smelly, which can be a little embarrassing. What's the scoop on coop odors, and how can you help your hens live their best lives by reducing odors in their home?...
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Weathering Your First Winter with Chickens.
If you are new to raising chickens, you’ll need to know the basics to keep your hens healthy and safe through the cold days of winter......
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Keeping Poop Out of the Nest Box
Poopy eggs are gross, take time to clean, and have a higher risk of exposing you to germs......
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How to Choose the Right Chicken for Your Family
As more and more suburbanites join the ranks of would-be homesteaders raising flocks of chickens in their backyards......
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Chickens in the Garden
Few foods are as appealing to a hungry chicken as a bunch of young lettuce or spinach sprouts poking through the spring soil. Given the chance, a few hens will quickly devour plants intended for their...
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Anticipating Winter with Chickens
Winter is a challenging time for both people and chickens. Humans prepare by bringing coats, long johns, mittens and hats out of storage, checking the furnace, and closing the home's holes and gaps wi...
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Making It Easy
There are ways to make keeping chickens easy on the back and muscles. These simple tips could encourage older people to keep enjoying their Australorps, Brahmas, Rhode Islands or any of many other fas...
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Poultry Feed Storage – Something You Mite Watch out For
People ask us often about poultry feed storage and how to properly store feed. Have you ever had the following situation happen to you? You go out to feed your chickens and notice a fine dust on the o...
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Storing Chicken Feed: Chicken Feed Storage Must-Dos
The area where feed is stored can quickly turn into chaos if you're not paying attention, especially with a flock that seems to grow daily (chicken math, anyone?)....
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Chicken Coop Plans: Creating a Delightful Chicken Home
Fall is the best season for a family to prepare for the delightful experience of welcoming a small flock of chickens to the backyard....
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Building a Chicken Coop: If You Build It, They Will Come
One of the most rewarding ways of creating perfect housing for a small flock of backyard chickens is building a chicken coop from scratch. Anyone with even modest carpentry experience will find coop c...
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Bringing Chickens to Your Backyard – Where to Start
Unlike cattle, sheep, or hogs unsuited for suburban life, chickens are the one farm animal that function well in a tiny backyard. They're small, relatively quiet, and can be raised in tiny coops that ...