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Raising livestock is one of the most rewarding parts of farm and homestead life, but it can also be genuinely hard work,…
Setting up a chicken coop is one of the most exciting parts of starting a backyard flock. It’s where your birds will…
Baby chicks are adorable, cuddly, soft, and, let’s be honest, messy. Here’s a little secret nobody warns you about: chickens poop a…
Newcomers to chicken keeping take real pride in their first coop. Some are simple and functional; others, built by people who love…
If you’ve kept chickens, you’ve almost certainly caught one mid dust bath: sprawled in a shallow pit of loose dirt, kicking soil…
Almost every backyard keeper starts out with a firm number in mind. Six chickens, maybe ten, absolutely no more. Then spring arrives,…
Foxes are lethal chicken predators. They’re fast, cunning, and remarkably bold, and a single fox can decimate an entire flock in short…
The most important part of raising your own meat birds is preparation. We begin preparing well in advance, so when the baby…
One Memorial Day weekend, an unexpected heat wave slammed the upper Midwest. All-time temperature records shattered as the mercury climbed near 100…
There are few things more exciting than the day a peeping box of baby chicks arrives from the post office or comes…
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