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The Right Stuff!
Poultry equipment comes in many different sizes and styles, but what do you really need for your flock? Since backyard chickens became popular again, all sorts of products have surfaced in feed stores.
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Spring Chicken Breed Directory
Add to Favorites By Christine Heinrichs, California BANTAMS Nankin Nankins have a unique black-tailed red color pattern. Males are ginger red color with orange red hackles and saddle. Their tails …
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Breakfast of Champion Poultry Layers
Add to Favorites Good-quality layer feed is all your chickens really need to eat, but by adding a few supplements to their feed you can provide your flock a healthy boost to …
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Treats for Baby Chicks Can Be Fun and Nutritious
Your initial focus when getting baby chickens was probably the basics: selecting a breed, setting up a chick brooder, and what you can feed chickens. When you were researching this last part, did you consider treats for baby chicks?
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Chick Nutrition – Start to Finish
Knowing what to feed baby chicks is a critical step to giving them a fighting chance. Besides a good brooder setup, the best tool is proper chick nutrition.
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Getting Ready for Spring Chicks
Add to Favorites If you have your heart set on a particular breed or variety of poultry, the best time to place your order is in early January, or as …
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Alternatives to Culling Chickens
My eight-year-old hen still manages to pop out a handful of eggs a year, but they’re usually wrinkled and a bit distorted with thin shells.
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12 Days of Poultry Giveaway
It’s back! Score a poultry present every day from Backyard Poultry and its wonderful partners. Enter daily for 12 days for your chance to win.
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Raising Backyard Turkeys for Meat
Of all homestead poultry projects, raising backyard turkeys seems to appeal to the least number of people. Turkeys are amazingly stupid — from the newly hatched poults who can starve to death while trampling in their feed because they haven’t learned where to find it, to the hens who lay their eggs standing up.
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Six Winter Keeping Tips for Backyard Chickens
Many people ask: Do chickens need heat in winter? The answer is backyard chickens are far more cold-hardy than you may imagine. Courtesy of fall molting, chickens should have a full set of new fluffy feathers for winter that will keep them perfectly comfortable in temperatures down to 40 degrees and just fine well below freezing, assuming they are in good health.
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