backyard chickens

8 Ways a Chicken Stays Cool

Chickens are very sensitive to high temperatures, much more so than cooler temperatures. While winter chicken keeping does pose its…

3 years ago

What is my Chicken Doing?- Chicken Behavior 101

Whether you are starting off with your first homestead flock or you have been raising chickens on the homestead for…

3 years ago

5 Bad Summer Foods for Chickens

We all want to keep our homestead flock healthy and cool during the summer months! Monitoring your flock's diet during…

3 years ago

Chicken Coop Cleaning Essentials

A clean chicken coop is essential to raising healthy backyard chickens. As any chicken keeper may tell you, keeping the…

3 years ago

5 Coop Litter Dangers to Prevent

No homestead chicken raiser likes to think that the litter they have in the chicken coop can actually be harmful…

3 years ago

6 Tips for Finding Chicken Sitters

One of the biggest challenges with homesteading is finding someone to care for your animals when you have to be…

4 years ago

Chicken Coop Building Essentials

Before you even get chicks, you should be planning out your chicken coop! It gives your flock a safe, dry,…

4 years ago

Recognizing Cold Stress in Chickens

Cold stress is often an overlooked aspect of winter chicken keeping due to the fact that chickens generally handle cold…

4 years ago

8 Winter Holiday Management Tips for Chickens

With Christmas and New Years right around the corner, I figured I would share with you some of the helpful…

4 years ago

Dealing with Bully Chickens

A peaceful, well socialized, and coherent flock makes for happy, calm, and stress free flock members who are productive and…

4 years ago

20+ Gift Ideas for Chicken Lovers

With Christmas right around the corner you might be thinking about the people you need to find gifts for.  I love finding…

4 years ago

Should My Coop Have Electricity?

How fancy is your coop? Or maybe a more practical question for homestead chicken raisers is, how fancy does my…

4 years ago

Good and Bad Table Scraps for Chickens

Raising chickens on the homestead means you have natural composters right at your finger tips! However, just because chickens act…

4 years ago

Homestead Chicken Treats by Season

Did you know that your chickens can actually help you eat healthier? Everything on the homestead is related, and that…

4 years ago

8 Reasons Why Chickens Should Free-Range

Deciding to free-range your chickens or not is a personal decision that will be based off of many different factors.…

4 years ago

7 Things to Train Chickens to Do

My chicken is smarter than your dog! Did you know that cognitive research has actually proven that chickens can be…

4 years ago

The Secret to Training Chickens

Chickens are intelligent creatures. They can recognize up to 100 different individuals and have the ability to compare themselves to…

4 years ago