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Growing Your Flock

Week 11 With Rudd Rangers

This past week, our Rudd Rangers have been truly enjoying their new found freedom!   Every morning, I walk out to their tractor…

Getting Started Choosing Your First Breed

Chicken Breed Characteristics That Will Love You Back

Late each winter, both new and seasoned chicken keepers run into the same happy problem. You flip through the Hoover’s Hatchery chick…

Growing Your Flock

Week 9 With Rudd Rangers

This week marked another first for the Rudd Rangers; they experienced freedom! It was brief, it was supervised, but it was freedom!…

Seasonal Planning

Flock Fixer™ Frozen Treats!

Hey everyone! If you live in the upper Midwest like I do, you understand my need to not complain about the heat…

Getting Started

Demystifying Chicken Feed

When it comes to food, chickens are just like people. Both need a nutritious well-balanced diet to be both healthy and productive.…

Predator Protection

How to Identify Chicken Preadators: Birds of Prey

It may seem silly to think that a hawk could attack a chicken and fly away with it, but it happens all…

Getting Started The Brooder Setup

Quick Notes About Raising Turkeys

Raising turkeys is not that different from raising chickens. The meat that home-raised turkeys produce is flavorful and bountiful. Turkeys are also…

Growing Your Flock

Egg Layers- One Month Old Update

My lovely assortment of chicks have officially made it to the one month mark! At about 3 weeks old, they graduated to…

Getting Started The Brooder Setup

My Chicken Coop Is Here! A Step-by-Step Chicken Coop Setup Guide

The day is finally here, friends. The girls’ new home has arrived, and to say I was excited would be a serious…

Daily Care Handling and Socializing Your Flock

Building Play Areas for Your Chickens

I would love to tell you that I’m a DIY queen and that I know my way around power tools and the…

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