Can Chickens Eat Orange Peel and other Citrus Fruit? We all love feeding our pet chickens with all the yummy scraps from the kitchen. As far as I can tell, the chickens love receiving all the yummy treats also! In fact they come running as soon as I appear in the backyard, because they generally associate my […]
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In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, shelter is a most basic physiological requirement. Just like humans, chickens require protection from their environment in order to thrive. Their health, safety, and ability to lay eggs all depend on it. Ready to break ground on your small-farm chicken coop? Follow this blueprint of basics before you start building.
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What is Chicken Sour Crop, and how to avoid it Because chickens do not have teeth to chew and tear up their food, so they can only peck food scraps and swallow things whole, so then they rely on a multi stage digestive process to breakdown their food. Instead of chewing their food, chickens have
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PROOF Eggs are the Best Option Have you heard of the latest way to make sure your eggs come from happy chickens? “PROOF” eggs stand for “Pasture Raised on Open Fields” and is a new terminology applied to raising happy chickens. We are starting to hear more about pasture raised chickens, which is much better
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My Pet Chicken is so Much Fun! My Pet chicken is so much fun to raise at home, and to collect the eggs every day. The best part of having pet chickens is watching the excitement on the kids faces as they learn how to look after their very own pet chickens every day, and
Can Chickens Eat Tomatoes? The answer to this question is a little more complicated than it first appears. Because pet chickens are just about the best little recycling machines going around, we tend to think that we can feed them anything and they will be able to deal with it. That is how recycling works –
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The popularity of keeping chickens in the backyard, on a patch of land, or even on a larger acreage has enjoyed a real surge over the past decade, and now you can even use diatomaceous earth for chickens. With an ever growing awareness about healthy lifestyles and healthy eating, more and more people are realizing,
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Can Chickens Eat Potatoes ? We all love to feed our friendly pet chicken with all the scraps from the kitchen, and there always seems to be a lot of vegetable scraps such as potatoes, beans, carrots, and all sorts of greens and colorful stuff. And that is excellent food scraps to feed chickens to give
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What about dried raisins and sultanas? As nice as it is to give our friendly pet chickens some lovely treats, maybe we should check to see if it is safe for chickens to eat grapes before we give them too many to eat! Fortunately, it is safe for chickens to eat grapes, and raisins. However,
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Best Chicken Coop Reviews and Special Deals Here at Pet-Chicken.com, we love looking after our pet chickens as if they are royalty, and it only seems appropriate that we share with you some of the best “chicken palaces” (aka best chicken coop) that we have found whilst undertaking our quest to keep our chickens in
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Can Chickens Eat Watermelon? At first this doesn’t seem like a hard question – don’t we all love watermelon? There is nothing better on a hot day than a lovely cool watermelon for a sweet and healthy refreshment! And when we finish with the scraps, we leave the watermelon rind and skin, and throw it
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What not to Feed Chickens Most people are surprised to see how chickens can eat almost all of the kitchen scraps that we collect for them – and how much they seem to love them! There are some food scraps that chickens should not eat, so we have made a list of what not to feed chickens. And this
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How to keep chickens happy Even though we tend to lead very busy lives these days, the simple act of looking after pet chickens can be an excellent way to relieve stress, and all it takes is a little care and attention of your lovely little pets each day. Happy and healthy chickens are not
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How to keep your chickens healthy As we have discussed on other blog posts here at Pet-Chicken.com, your backyard chickens tend to have fairly basic needs and really don’t require a lot of effort to keep them healthy and free of chicken parasites. As long as you tend to their basic health needs, such
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Do you want to know about the latest Chicken Treadle Feeders? Here is a really neat idea on the market – chicken treadle feeders! Have you ever seen these chicken treadle feeders, which deliver feed to your chickens on demand – that is whenever they walk up to the feeder, the treadle bar at
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