I love my backyard chickens! They’re often not in the backyard of course. Sometimes they’re in the side yard, the front yard, or even under the house! Wherever they are, they are so much fun to have around and have so many wonderful uses. I can’t imagine my homestead without a flock of backyard chickens. […]
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Raising Chickens Naturally
I started raising chickens in 2012 after having absolutely no experience with farm animals (I grew up with cats and dogs, but that’s it!). I knew that I wanted to start growing my own food. I wanted to stop funding an industry I didn’t believe in (industrialized food). I also wanted to teach my kids […]
How to Introduce New Chickens (Without Too Much Trouble)
Introducing new chickens to your flock is something most chicken keepers have to figure out at some point. When we tried introducing new chickens to our existing flock for the first time we made one huge mistake and learned the hard way what to do and what not to do. Here’s the thing: Chickens are really serious about […]
Raising Baby Chicks: How to Keep Them Healthy Naturally
There’s a huge backyard chickens movement going on and for good reason. Raising baby chicks and growing your own eggs (among other foods) is a great way to know where your food is coming from and that it’s truly healthy. But many people are reluctant to get started because they’re worried they won’t do it right. […]
How to Deal With Sour Crop in Chickens Easily
I’ve written about keeping chickens healthy in the winter but I didn’t realize that spring brings it’s own challenges, specifically, Impacted and sour crop. One day I went out to the coop to check on the chickens while they were scratching around in the dirt. I noticed that one chicken, Slater, was not scratching around with […]
10 Tips for Keeping Chickens in Winter (You Can’t Ignore!)
We are just loving our chickens! They are fun to watch and they give us more eggs than we can eat! We were lucky enough to get a chance to see a local farmer’s chicken setup and ask him questions well before we got our own flock. He was pretty relaxed about keeping chickens in […]