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Seasonal Planning

VIDEO: Keeping Chickens Cool in Summer Heat

Seasonal Planning

Keeping Your Flock Cool

Hot Chicks: How to Keep Your Backyard Flock Cool When the Sun’s on Full Blast Summer: the season of sun, sweat, and…

Seasonal Planning

Hoover’s Hatchery Mother’s Day Coloring Page

✨ Just in time for Mother’s Day! ✨ Download our free coloring page and let the little ones create something egg-stra special…

Seasonal Planning

Hoover’s Hatchery Spring Coloring Page (2025)

🐣🌷Spring has sprung — and so has our latest Hoover’s Hatchery coloring page! 🎨🐥 Grab your crayons, markers, or colored pencils and…

Seasonal Planning

Gifts for Homesteaders

Shopping for friends who homestead is actually quite fun and easy! Whether you know someone with 3 backyard hens in a subdivision,…

Seasonal Planning

Keeping Your Coop Warm During Winter

Chickens have been doing just fine surviving winters with humans for many hundreds of years. Long before the invention of electricity, chickens…

Seasonal Planning

Using Leaves as Chicken Bedding for a Free Winter Coop

If you are looking for a completely free way to keep your coop clean and cozy this winter, raked leaves might be…

Seasonal Planning

Memorial Day Fruit Kabobs

Easy Memorial Day Fruit Kabobs for Summer Picnics and Parties I can’t believe we’re almost at the end of the school year!…

Seasonal Planning

The Best Greek Salad Recipe

for Simple Family Meals I don’t know about you, but I am always looking for healthy, simple meals to feed my family.…

Egg Production

Chicken Coop Lighting in the Winter

I don’t know about you, but me and the girls are feeling this long winter month! While it’s been absolutely gorgeous with…

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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 door or to a partner store near you.