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The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer. If you’re a backyard chicken keeper, maybe your flock is going…
Most families that keep a flock of backyard chickens have a front or side lawn, but few use it to advantage. Even…
Setting up a chicken coop is one of the most exciting parts of starting a backyard flock. It’s where your birds will…
When summer heat rolls in, your flock feels it just as much as you do. Chickens tolerate cold far better than heat,…
Newcomers to chicken keeping take real pride in their first coop. Some are simple and functional; others, built by people who love…
Chickens on a farm can be like having a flock of small pigs in the backyard. They seem to eat everything and…
With coronavirus closing schools, millions of parents have unexpectedly become home school teachers. They are learning how valuable trained professional teachers are…
If you’ve kept chickens, you’ve almost certainly caught one mid dust bath: sprawled in a shallow pit of loose dirt, kicking soil…
The chicks are now 6 weeks old and moving their tractor everyday has become a part of my daily routine. It is…
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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