Diatomaceous Earth For Chickens: Why and How To Use Properly May 4, 2021 - Diatomaceous Earth For Chickens: Why and How To Use Properly If you’re looking for natural ways to treat your flock for parasites, you may want to add to your care plan diatomaceous earth for chickens. More and more chicken owners have jumped on board with natural methods of coop care in recent years. Luckily, more [...]Read More... from Diatomaceous Earth For Chickens: Why and How To Use Properly
Chapter Two: How To Keep Chickens Laying Eggs During Winter Apr 1, 2021 - One of the biggest problems backyard chicken owners face during the winter months is keeping their egg supply going. If you’ve kept chickens during the winter months before, you will know that, unfortunately, if you let nature take its course, your hens will stop laying completely during this period. I’ve raised chickens for over 7 [...]Read More... from Chapter Two: How To Keep Chickens Laying Eggs During Winter
How Cold Is Too Cold For My Chickens? Mar 17, 2021 - Here in the North Eastern States, we need to know how cold is too cold for my chickens. It’s never too early to look at this year’s winter months, so we need to prepare ourselves and our flocks for the long months ahead. Many beginner chicken keepers are amazed at just how hardy and tough [...]
The Plymouth Rock Chicken: All You Need To Know Mar 15, 2021 - Plymouth Rock is one of Americas’ oldest breeds. The hen was seen from coast to coast before the end of World War 2, and it became the nation’s main source of chicken meat and eggs. As a dual purpose hen, it excelled in good quality meat production and good egg production, the only hen that [...]Read More... from The Plymouth Rock Chicken: All You Need To Know
9 Healthy Treats Your Chickens Will Love Mar 11, 2021 - We all love to spoil our chickens with chicken treats now and then. Giving treats to your chickens helps to give their diet some variation. It also helps to keep them happy and laying eggs. If you’re not careful, buying chicken treats for your chickens can cost lots of money. That’s why most of our [...]
The Ultimate Guide on the Silkie Chicken Mar 9, 2021 - The Silkie chicken has been called fluff-balls, aliens from another world, teddy bears, and many other things in between. Without a doubt, they certainly are unusual-looking chickens! Their strange appearance, friendliness, and mothering skills are surely what endears them to many folks. Today we are going to discover the history behind this unusual breed of [...]
How Much Room Do Chickens Need? Mar 9, 2021 - Before we ever entertained the idea of keeping chickens in our garden, we were long under the impression that you need lots of lands to keep chickens- ideally, at least an acre of grass. Fortunately, this isn’t the case (unless you are planning on keeping thousands of them!), and you’d be surprised by the actual [...]
How To Store Your Chickens’ Freshly Laid Eggs Mar 1, 2021 - There are not too many greater pleasures in life than strolling down to the bottom of your garden, reaching into your nest box, and pulling out a freshly laid egg. If you time it just right, the egg will still be warm! You joyfully walk back inside and take the egg into your kitchen to [...]Read More... from How To Store Your Chickens’ Freshly Laid Eggs
7 Surprising Rules for Feeding Chickens Mar 1, 2021 - Feeding your chickens is one of, if not the most important, tasks when it comes to raising backyard chickens. Get it right, and you will have a healthy flock who merrily cluck every time you bring them one of their favorite snacks or kitchen scraps! Get it wrong, and it can lead to reduced egg [...]
The Top 10 Friendliest Chicken Breeds Mar 1, 2021 - Who doesn’t want a flock of happy chickens that come running when you approach them? Some people prioritize traits such as egg production, cold hardiness, outward appearances if raising for the show, chicken size, or growth speed; for those of us backyard flock keepers, having the friendliest chicken breeds as our pets is a big [...]