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Getting Started The Brooder Setup

What Do You Need in a Chicken Coop? Your Essential Equipment Checklist

Your chicks have arrived, your coop is built, and now you want to give your flock the best possible life. The trouble…

Advanced Topics

What is a Fairy Egg?

It started out like any other morning. After I got my husband and kids out the door for work and school, I…

Advanced Topics

VIDEO: Coop Camp – Dr. Darrin Karcher Egg Management Part 1

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Daily Care

VIDEO: Great American Coop Tour – Susan and Thomas



Health & Wellness

How to Make a Chicken Dust Bath

I love to see people’s reactions when they ask how I bathe my chickens. When I tell them that chickens love to…

Egg Production

Too Many Eggs? Dealing with a Surplus

Bringing fresh eggs from coop to kitchen is a backyard flock owner’s delight. Trouble is, sometimes there’s too much of a good…

Daily Care Coop Cleaning

Tips on Keeping Your Coop Clean

Your chickens may be pretty and clean themselves, but without your help, they probably won’t keep their coop clean.  Cleaning the coop…

Composting

Raising chickens and gardening go hand in hand.  You may know that you can improve your garden with your chickens, but have…

Seasonal Planning

The Best Easter Egg Hostess Gift

Easter is probably my favorite holiday! It’s meaning stretches far beyond little bunnies and egg hunts for me. My roots run deep…

Daily Care

Tips for Cleaning Eggs

You’ve successfully raised your fluffy, sweet chicks into beautiful hens.  Your hens have started to lay and you can’t wait to crack…

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