Keeping Our Feathered Friends Fed: Essential Bird Feeder Maintenance Tips
Bird feeders are not only a delightful addition to any backyard, but they also provide essential nourishment for our feathered friends, especially during times...
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Chirping into Spring: Essential Tips for Early Chick Care
As the world awakens to the warmth of early spring, backyard poultry enthusiasts eagerly anticipate the arrival of new feathered additions. Raising chicks...
Late Fall Chicken and Poultry Care: Preparing Your Flock for Winter
As the days get shorter and the temperatures drop, it's time to turn your attention to preparing your chickens and other poultry for the cold months ahead....
Chicken Molting Tips
Molting is an essential part of chickens’ growth and health, but losing and replacing feathers is also a messy, stressful process. Taking steps to help...
Pecking Order in Chicks
Every commercial poultry farmer, hobby farmer or urban backyard farmer who keep a few chickens is aware that a pecking order exists in every flock, but how can...
Summer Flock Care: How to Keep Chickens Cool
Rising summer temperatures can have a dramatic impact on chickens’ health and productivity. Fortunately, it is easy to take steps to keep chickens cool and...
How to Prepare Your Chickens For Winter
Chickens are a surprisingly resilient bird where winter is concerned. This is especially true if your poultry belongs to one of the winter-hardy breeds such as...
Dropping Boards – De-Poop Your Coop!
Even the healthiest chickens can make a massive mess inside their coop as feces, dirt and feathers accumulate in such a small space. Dropping boards are the...
Keep Your Flock Happy and Healthy
Whether you have just a few chickens or a large, widely varied flock, a happy, healthy flock will be better socialized and will be more productive layers....
The Importance of a Chicken Coop
With plenty of buzz about how much healthier and more humane "free-range" poultry can be, it may seem better to forget about a chicken coop for your flock. But...
Hot Weather Tips for Raising Poultry
As temperatures begin to flare above 90 degrees with high humidity, don’t forget about caring for your flock. An important requirement for raising poultry is...
