Would you like to start raising chickens in your backyard? These posts will walk you through the entire process from setting up your brooder, caring for your baby chicks, what to include in your chicken coop, and to how to help your chickens through their yearly molt.
There are many foods that can be toxic to chickens in large quantities. And some foods can be deadly to chickens even in small amounts. Learn what to feed your laying hens and the foods you should not feed your chickens. What To Feed Your Flock of Chickens Chickens are …
Learn how to prevent and stop chickens from eating eggs. It all starts innocently enough. An egg gets cracked in the nest box. Another chicken decides to have a taste. Yum. So they alert their flockmates. Here come the other chickens for a taste. And before you know it, you …
So you think you have a bully chicken? Learn how to determine if you have a bully chicken and how to reform the bully and restore peace and harmony to the coop. Normal Chicken Behavior vs. Bullying First, let’s discuss the difference between normal chicken behavior and bullying. Chickens will …
Your baby chicks are growing bigger every day. They are starting to look like adult chickens. You’ve moved them from the brooder to the coop. But when is the right time to switch chickens to layer feed? And what kind of feed should you choose? Learn how to transition your …
Most backyard chicken keepers will, at some point, discover an unusual egg in the coop. The most common egg oddities are either thin shelled eggs or soft shelled eggs, sometimes called rubber eggs. So what do you do when you discover one? And is it safe to eat the egg? …