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Brooder Bonanza: Prepping Your Brooder for Chicks
Creating the perfect environment for your chicks is a vital step towards their healthy growth and development. Its important to set up a brooder that mimics the warmth and security of a mother hen’s embrace. From selecting the ideal brooder location in your home to regulating the temperature for these delicate creatures, we provide expertContinue reading “Brooder Bonanza: Prepping Your Brooder for Chicks”
Chick Magnet: Bringing Home and Raising Chicks 101
Bringing home and raising chicks is an incredibly rewarding experience that transforms your living space into a lively haven of warmth and happiness. Whether you’re a seasoned poultry enthusiast or a first-time caretaker, the journey of nurturing chicks offers unparalleled joy and valuable life lessons. As you witness these tiny bundles of energy grow intoContinue reading “Chick Magnet: Bringing Home and Raising Chicks 101”
Fermenting for the Flock: The Advantages and How-Tos of Fermented Chicken Feed
*Disclosure: I only recommend products I use myself and all opinions expressed here are my own. This page may contain affiliate links that no additional cost to you, may earn me a small commission. Chickens are magic! They take our weeds, bugs/pests, food scraps and leftovers and turn them into a complete protein year afterContinue reading “Fermenting for the Flock: The Advantages and How-Tos of Fermented Chicken Feed”
Chickens at Home: How to Plan and Build a Coop for Your Backyard Flock
Our first flock found our home in the summer of 2016. We purchased grown Rhode-Island Red hens as a way to dip our toe in the water without committing to all the gear chicks entailed. Little did we know the hens we got were around 3 years old and had significantly slowed down in layingContinue reading “Chickens at Home: How to Plan and Build a Coop for Your Backyard Flock”
Protecting Your Flock: Dealing with Backyard Poultry Predators in Suburbia
Don’t be fooled into thinking that just because you don’t live in the mountains or the woods that you do not have predators in your area. Urban areas have a long list of a number of deadly backyard poultry predators. Most species of domesticated poultry don’t have a lot of natural defenses. They don’t fly,Continue reading “Protecting Your Flock: Dealing with Backyard Poultry Predators in Suburbia”
From Eggs to Compost: Why Keeping Chickens is a Smart Choice for Your Backyard
**THIS POST WAS UPDATED 3/2023 TO REFLECT CURRENT FEED PRODUCT AND PRICES ARE BACKYARD CHICKENS REALLY WORTH IT? The short answer, yes. The really long winded answer that involves math explains below… Our flock of backyard chickens consists of 4 Austra White hens and 4 Barred Plymouth Rock hens. Both of these breeds lay betweenContinue reading “From Eggs to Compost: Why Keeping Chickens is a Smart Choice for Your Backyard”