Chickens / Outdoor / Pets
Coops provide a comfortable lair for your hens to feel safe and relaxed. Roosts and nesting boxes are usually up off the ground because in the wild, these types of birds would look for safety in trees and bushes – these...
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Chickens / Farm Life / Pets
I think that we can all agree that free-range chickens are happier chickens. The ability to roam the yard and peck to their hearts content is way more mentally stimulating for a chicken, rather than being cooped up all day in...
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Chickens / Farm Life
The best time to winterize your chicken coop is in the late summer or fall, so let’s get to it! Chickens are actually pretty cold tolerant- they tolerate cold much better than heat. Temperatures as low as -10F probably won’t bother...
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Chickens / Farm Life / Pets
Your kids talked you into buying them baby chicks or bunnies for Easter: Now What? Chicks and bunnies are synonymous with the Easter holiday. Those cute little baby animals are worldwide symbols of fertility and new life that appears with Spring....
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Chickens / Farm Life / Pets
If you are like most new chicken owners, you fell in love with the idea of getting yourself a cute flock of backyard chickens and then quickly found out that you were spending way more money than you thought. First off,...
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From the Urban Backyard Farmer Guidebook Chances are if you are reading this article you are already sold on the idea of adding some egg-laying hens into your flock. However, before you haphazardly run out and buy some cute little chicks, you’ll...
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Chickens / Farm Life / Pets
With each passing week as we shift from the fall into the dreaded winter, those new to keeping birds out back can be a little frantic as to how they can keep them safe through the dropping temperatures. Urban and suburban...
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