Backyard Chickens
Raising backyard chickens is one of the most rewarding parts of homestead life—fresh eggs, natural fertilizer, and a flock full of personality. Whether you're just starting out or fine-tuning your setup, this category is packed with practical, experience-based advice on building coops, feeding your flock, managing health naturally, and enjoying the simple joys of keeping chickens at home. From breed selection to predator-proofing, let’s help you raise hens the healthy, natural way.
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How to Make a Brooder for Chicks (With Tips for Meat Birds Too)
How to make a brooder for chicks is one of the first things every chicken keeper needs to learn—whether you’re raising future egg layers, backyard companions, or fast-growing meat birds. A well-designed brooder keeps your chicks warm, safe, and stress-free during those critical first weeks of life. Setting up a brooder doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive, but there…
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The Official Secret On How To Identify Parasites And Coccidia
OK, OK, it is no secret. But there are a lot of us, most of us, I would say, that don’t know how to identify parasites and coccidia in our chickens, ducks, rabbits, and even dogs unless we go to a veterinarian. This is all great if you have the ability to take your animals to see a vet, but…
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How to Easily Maintain a Smell-Free Chicken Coop
When I told my husband I wanted chickens, all he could do was complain about his grandfather having chickens and how their barn was so darn stinky. He really didn’t want to get them because of his experience. I kept telling him about all the things I had researched and how I thought I could do it better. Now he…
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Unlock the Secrets to Raising Chickens While Being Busy
Chickens are the easiest animals I have to care for, even as a busy mom. I hear people all the time say I don’t know how you do it. But honestly, I always laugh and say I am a super lazy farmer. So I thought I would share with you my secrets to raising chickens from one busy person to…
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A Better Way to Seal your Backyard Chicken Coop
Have you spent hours on the internet trying to find the best way to Seal Your Chicken Coop? ME TOO! It is crazy the amount of time I have poured into just researching stuff and trying to find out what would be the best way of doing things. I wanted to use something that was safe for my chickens and…
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How To Raise Friendly Chickens And The BEST Breeds
A friendly chicken is the best! I know, I know… we think we are getting chickens to have eggs. But once you have these little mini dinosaurs following you around, talking to you, sitting next to you, and just being cute as anything – your mind changes on the reasons why you want chickens! Raising them to be friendly chickens…
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I am in Love with my Remodeled Chicken Coop
I am in love with my refurbished chicken coop! I had wanted chickens so badly. But I wasn’t really sure where to start. I kept struggling with two main factors. One was the idea of spending a huge amount of money on buying a coop. They are so expensive. And two, building one would be cheaper, but I kept thinking…
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How to Build a Feeder for your Chicken Coop
After fixing up the chicken coop that was given to me I knew I wanted a small chicken feeder. And I didn’t want to fill it up with huge items. I free-range my girls but there are parts of the day when they are in their run and there is no getting around it. For the most part, the chickens…
