10 Foods You Should Not Be Feeding Your Chickens It’s true that chickens aren’t exactly picky eaters. Most of the time, anyway. They love to eat out in the yard including this such as grass, weeds, flowers, bugs. They even eat tiny rocks, all sorts of plants and fruits, breads, pasta and rice. All sorts …
20+ Chicken Coop Upgrades That Your Chickens Will Love There are plenty of ways to upgrade your chicken coop – in fact, if you don’t know where to start we have found you 21 upgrades you can do yourself today! From chicken water systems, flock blocks to chicken runs and chicken swings! You will find …
Reasons We All Should Be Raising Chickens Suppose you were offered an inexpensive and easy way to provide your family with a healthy, sustainable food source for years to come? You’d be a bird brain not to jump at the opportunity if you have the means. Well if you have a decent-sized backyard and perhaps …
Caring for your Chickens This Winter It can be a struggle surviving the winter with homesteading chickens, it takes hard work and a little bit of shared knowledge between homesteaders. Let this in depth article address many issues to keep your chicken flock safe, fed, healthy, happy and warm. When all their needs are met, …
Keeping “Cooped Up” Chickens Warm in Winter Funny thing about chickens is that they seem always to be the “butt” of jokes. Everyone is always making “chicken jokes” – poor things. I live smack dab in the middle of the state of Nebraska – the prairie, and chickens are plentiful. This in spite of the …
How To Keep Your Chickens Immune Systems Strong and Healthy Caring for pet chickens is pretty easy! They have the same needs as most any other pet. If you’re raising chickens, whether for eggs or meat, you want your fowl to stay healthy. Healthy chickens need attention and care every day. The following article will …