keeping-chickens
How Snow in Chicken Pens and Runs Affects Your Flock
My chickens love being outside. I keep a light in the coop to welcome them inside during bad weather, when it gets dark early and the rain leaves the open-air chicken pens and runs in puddles.
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How to Influence the Law on Keeping Chickens in Residential Areas
Are you interested in learning more about how to legally keep chickens in your residential area? Where does a wannabe chicken keeper begin? The road may seem daunting at first.
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The Risks of Keeping Goats with Chickens
Add to Favorites By Doug Ottinger – Animals have been kept in mixed flocks for centuries. Whether it is mixed poultry, poultry with sheep and cows, or even keeping goats with …
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Make an Herbal Snack Bar Wall Hanging
You can quickly construct a herbal snack bar using a shipping pallet. We made two different gardens using pallets.
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What is the Best Feed for Chickens in Summer?
Heat waves, moisture, humidity, and molting are all conditions that are part of summer. Learn how to feed your flock properly during the summer months.
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Walking Tall: Helping Your Splay Leg Chick
There are many issues that might affect your chickens’ legs. Learn how to help your splay leg chick and more chicken leg maladies.
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Keep Happy Hens
Keeping your hens happy is easy once you know what motivates their behavior. Nearly all of a chicken’s activities are motivated by three basic needs: to get enough to eat, to avoid being eaten, and to make more chickens.
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Are Chickens Good Pets for Homeowners?
Homeowners keep chickens for fresh eggs, insect control, and companionship! Chickens may be good pets, but they are not house pets. An optimal flock size is three or more. Be sure to provide healthy food, fresh water, and a home in your backyard.
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No Chickens Allowed!
Add to Favorites By Jeffrey Bradley, Florida Five years ago, I’d never thought of chickens beyond Kentucky fried. Then one day our daughter brought home a fuzzy yellow Christmas chick someone no longer …
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Chickens Molting in Spring
Chickens molting in spring can be a surprise to new chicken keepers, here are some tips to help your flock through it.
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