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Getting Started The Brooder Setup

How to Make a Simple Chick Brooder for Your Baby Chicks

There are few things more exciting than the day a peeping box of baby chicks arrives from the post office or comes…

Daily Care

How to Manage a Chicken Run for a Dry, Healthy Flock

A well-run outdoor space is one of the best things you can give your birds, but to manage a chicken run takes…

Advanced Topics

Coccidiosis in Chickens: Symptoms, Prevention, and Treatment

Raising backyard chickens is one of life’s real joys. Before getting a flock, many of us scroll through social media dreaming about…

Getting Started The Brooder Setup

How Long Should Chicks Stay in the Brooder?

You’ve got your chicks home and settled in the brooder. Now the big question: how long should they stay there, and when…

Advanced Topics

Adventures in Ordinance Change

During the past few years thousands of American families have started a backyard chicken flock. Bringing a breakfast’s worth of fresh eggs…

Do Chickens Make Good Pets?

Every so often, a woman is spotted on a New York City sidewalk, leash in hand, walking a chicken. Ask her whether…

Growing Your Flock

Week 5 With Chicks

This week the chicks have officially moved outside! All 13 are now living in the chicken tractor with lots of extra space…

Health & Wellness

Oregano Essential Oils for Chickens: My Q&A With Dr. Stock

People ask me all the time how I have kept my flock so healthy this time around, and honestly, it has not…

Growing Your Flock

Week 6 With Rudd Rangers

    A whole week in the great outdoors, and our Rudd Rangers are loving the extra space! Each weighs about a…

Health & Wellness

Natural Products to Maintain Chicken Health

Can I be honest with you? Plenty of keepers feel nervous about starting a flock, and often it’s because of a rough…

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