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Chicken Care

Hundreds of articles and videos, organized the way Keepers already browse them.

Getting Started Is a Backyard Flock Right for You?

The Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Backyard Chickens

Raising backyard chickens has been one of my very best decisions. It’s way more than just yummy eggs whenever we want. Our…

Growing Your Flock

Week 10 With Rudd Rangers

This week, the Rudd Rangers are officially 2 months old!  They have made it about 2/3 of the way through their time…

Predator Protection

How to Identify Chicken Preadators: Racoons

A raccoon attack usually happens at night and leaves blood, feathers and chicken parts scattered inside and outside the coop. Raccoons pull…

Growing Your Flock

A Guide For Feeding Growing Chickens

A trip to your local feed store may leave you asking more questions about chicken feed than before you visited. What percentage…

Advanced Topics

Forage or Feed? Nutritional Benefits of Chickens that Forage

There are many benefits to having chickens that are able to forage and don’t rely on just chicken feed. Allowing chickens to…

Health & Wellness

Take Your Daily Vitamin & Your Chickens Too!

How many of you take a daily vitamin on a regular basis? As much as I’d love to tell you that my…

Getting Started Is a Backyard Flock Right for You?

Everything You Need to Know About Raising Chickens in the City

As most of you know, our family lives on an acreage. It’s a beautiful setting along a riverbed with lots of wide…

Advanced Topics

Chickens and Their Personalities

Most chick catalogs and websites reveal general characteristics of chicken breeds.  For example, Leghorns and most other white egg breeds are described…

Seasonal Planning

Managing Frostbite in Your Flock

Frostbite shows up on a chicken’s comb, wattles, toes and feet as pale, off-white skin that can swell and later turn black.…

Getting Started Is a Backyard Flock Right for You?

How to Start Raising Livestock: Try Chickens First

Raising livestock is one of the most rewarding parts of farm and homestead life, but it can also be genuinely hard work,…

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Ready for the birds?

When it is time to go from learning to Keeping, Hoover's has a complete selection of backyard poultry, hatched with care and shipped to your local post office, or available at a partner store near you.