What is Pasty Butt?
When you are raising baby chicks from their early stages of development, your chicks could develop something called "pasty butt." How to Prevent Pasty Butt Chickens have one hole that is used for laying eggs, pooping, urinating and mating. This hole is called the...
How Do I Add a Chicken to the Flock?
Chickens really do have a pecking order - they literally peck at each other to establish who is the 'top chicken'. If they peck another chicken to the point where it bleeds, they continue to peck at the bleeding chicken and they actually can kill it. The upside of...
Why Chickens Need a Roost
Inside your chicken coop, you need to install a roost: this is a place for your chickens to sleep. Once it starts to get dark, one by one your chickens will go into the coop itself and settle down for the night. There are just a couple of things you need to keep in...
Chicken Nesting Boxes
What is a nesting box? A nesting box is a box inside the chicken coop for the chicken to sit in while laying eggs. Typically, it is open on one side for the chicken to come in and out. You can improvise a box from something you already have, or you can build one...
A Waterer and a Feeder for Your Chicken Coop
When you look for a waterer for your pet chickens, the most trouble free are the kind that you can hook a garden hose up to and have them automatically refill. That way, you do not have to worry that they will run out of water. Think about how the chickens will drink...
When You Build Your Chicken Coop, it Should Have. . .
You want your birds in good physical shape, contented and happy. You want them ready and able to lay eggs for you. There are certain things you should make sure you provide when you are planning your chicken coop. Here are some chicken coop ideas Keep the Predators...
An Introduction to Chicken Coop Building
In this video, you can see some of the basic things that need to be incorporated into any chicken coop plan: a place to roost, nesting boxes, water, food, a way to get in and out of the roost area, a run that keeps the chickens safe from potential predators. And...
What Are Free Range Farms, Really?
Did you ever wonder if "free range" really means ranging free? Check out this example of a free range chicken farm: [youtube smYQruSKsSE&feature=related] Example of a Free Range Farm
Chickens Have Personalities,Too!
For all the talk about how pea-brained chickens are, you may be surprised to find that each chicken has its own distinctive and endearing personality traits. You will certainly be tempted to spoil them, pick them up and hug them to show them off to your friends and...
What Do Chickens Eat?
Chickens will eat all of your vegetable scraps. When they are laying eggs, they often need an oyster shell grit/feed (you can get this in 50-lb bags from a farm supply store), and cracked corn is a treat you can scatter for them that they enjoy. Here is an example...
About Me
Hi, I’m Jodie! I love to see my chickens scratching in the dirt for worms, sunbathing, stretching their legs and enjoying life – and I love the gift of their beautiful eggs for my family to eat! Read More...