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Chicken Care

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Egg Production

Managing Egg Production During Shorter Days

The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer. If you’re a backyard chicken keeper, maybe your flock is going…

Advanced Topics

3 Ways to Make Your Lawn More Sustainable with Chickens

Most families that keep a flock of backyard chickens have a front or side lawn, but few use it to advantage. Even…

Getting Started The Move to the Coop

Setting Up Your Chicken Coop: A Practical Guide

Setting up a chicken coop is one of the most exciting parts of starting a backyard flock. It’s where your birds will…

Seasonal Planning

How to Make Frozen Treats for Chickens

When summer heat rolls in, your flock feels it just as much as you do. Chickens tolerate cold far better than heat,…

Advanced Topics

Second Coops Are Handy

Newcomers to chicken keeping take real pride in their first coop. Some are simple and functional; others, built by people who love…

Seasonal Planning

Can You Feed Pumpkins to Chickens?

Chickens on a farm can be like having a flock of small pigs in the backyard. They seem to eat everything and…

Learning From Chickens Part 2

With coronavirus closing schools, millions of parents have unexpectedly become home school teachers. They are learning how valuable trained professional teachers are…

Daily Care

Why Do Chickens Need Dust Baths ?

If you’ve kept chickens, you’ve almost certainly caught one mid dust bath: sprawled in a shallow pit of loose dirt, kicking soil…

Growing Your Flock

Week 7 With Rudd Rangers

The chicks are now 6 weeks old and moving their tractor everyday has become a part of my daily routine. It is…

Advanced Topics

How to Integrate Your Chicken Flocks

Almost every backyard keeper starts out with a firm number in mind. Six chickens, maybe ten, absolutely no more. Then spring arrives,…

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