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Chicken-Friendly Coop Decorations
Decking the halls of your coop and run with some safe, chicken-friendly decorations is a great way to get your flock — and family — into the holiday spirit.
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Twas the Night Before Christmas — Chickens Edition!
With apologies to Clement C. Moore. The following should prove to all the children out there that Santa visits good chickens, too.
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DIY Pole Barn to Chicken Coop Conversion
We didn’t plan to have chickens, it just happened. Here’s how we pulled off our pole barn to chicken coop conversion.
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Free Chicken Coop Plan
If you’re going to get chicks this spring, or need a new home for your flock, you’ll love this free chicken coop plan.
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Building a Solar Chicken Coop Heater
Do chickens need heat in winter? Is it worth the fire risk? A solar chicken coop heater could solve both problems to keep birds safe when temperatures plummet.
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Brooder Box Plans: Build Your Own Brooder Cabinet
Before I knew it, we were building this cabinet brooder from our own brooder box plans.
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4 Tips for Composting Chicken Manure
As any poultry owner knows, in addition to companionship and fresh eggs, our birds produce manure. I enrich my flower and vegetable gardens to yield even more produce by composting chicken manure.
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Mitigating Ammonia: Your Options in Poultry Litter Treatment
Some of us keep our beloved birds in precarious situations. I don’t mean we necessarily put them in direct danger, but the very idea of us keeping backyard chickens in an otherwise urban environment can be a precarious peace-keeping mission.
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8 Simple Boredom Busters for Urban Chickens
In urban chicken farming, bored chickens leads to undesirable behavior: Hens might pluck their feathers or peck at each other.
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Building a Portable Chicken Coop
A “chicken tractor,” or portable chicken coop, could be as simple as a truck cap on wheels to a more elaborate one.
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