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Health & Wellness

Antibiotics and Your Flock: When Medicine is Necessary, and When to Hold the Prescription

Antibiotics for Chickens: When to Use Them Safely Every backyard chicken keeper dreams of a happy, healthy flock, strutting through the grass…

Getting Started Their First Day Home

Pasty Bottom: Not the Chicken Trend Anyone Wanted

Pasty Bottom in Chicks: Causes, Fixes and Prevention It’s a rite of passage for new chicken owners—thinking you’ve got the cozy brooder…

Health & Wellness

Give Your Chickens Room to Roam: Why Adequate Space Matters

How Much Space Do Chickens Need for a Healthy Flock Raising happy, healthy chickens isn’t just about food and water—it’s about space.…

Health & Wellness

What to Know About Homemade Chicken Feed

Homemade Chicken Feed: What Your Flock Needs to Thrive Backyard chicken keepers are some of the most resourceful people out there. A…

Seasonal Planning

Waterers In Winter

How to Keep Chicken Water from Freezing Safely in Winter Brrrr. It’s cold out.  A new flock owner soon learns that subfreezing…

Health & Wellness

Sunflower Seeds for Chickens a Protein Boost During Molting

Molting is a natural and essential part of a chicken’s life! It’s when they shed old feathers and grow new ones. Some…

Health & Wellness

What is the Purpose of a Crop in Chickens?

Have you ever noticed at the end of a long, lazy day of foraging that your chickens have a little bulge in…

Health & Wellness

What Are the Top 3 Diseases That Affect Backyard Chickens?

Top Chicken Diseases Every Backyard Keeper Should Know The internet is full of beautiful chicken coops, elegantly feathered chickens and chicken keepers…

Health & Wellness

What is the Benefit of Fermenting Chicken Feed?

Raising happy, healthy chickens often starts with what you feed them. One increasingly popular practice among backyard chicken keepers is fermenting chicken…

Seasonal Planning

Frozen Watermelon Kabobs for the Perfect Summer Chicken Treat

We’re in the thick of summer and boy is it hot! The girls are constantly looking for shade and digging deep into…

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