Chickens are very sensitive to high temperatures, much more so than cooler temperatures. While winter chicken keeping does pose its…
Whether you are starting off with your first homestead flock or you have been raising chickens on the homestead for…
We all want to keep our homestead flock healthy and cool during the summer months! Monitoring your flock's diet during…
A clean chicken coop is essential to raising healthy backyard chickens. As any chicken keeper may tell you, keeping the…
No homestead chicken raiser likes to think that the litter they have in the chicken coop can actually be harmful…
One of the biggest challenges with homesteading is finding someone to care for your animals when you have to be…
Before you even get chicks, you should be planning out your chicken coop! It gives your flock a safe, dry,…
Cold stress is often an overlooked aspect of winter chicken keeping due to the fact that chickens generally handle cold…
A peaceful, well socialized, and coherent flock makes for happy, calm, and stress free flock members who are productive and…
With Christmas right around the corner you might be thinking about the people you need to find gifts for. I love finding…
How fancy is your coop? Or maybe a more practical question for homestead chicken raisers is, how fancy does my…
Raising chickens on the homestead means you have natural composters right at your finger tips! However, just because chickens act…
Did you know that your chickens can actually help you eat healthier? Everything on the homestead is related, and that…
Deciding to free-range your chickens or not is a personal decision that will be based off of many different factors.…
My chicken is smarter than your dog! Did you know that cognitive research has actually proven that chickens can be…
Chickens are intelligent creatures. They can recognize up to 100 different individuals and have the ability to compare themselves to…