preventing nutrient deficiency with grains

Prevent Nutrient Deficiency With This Strategy

Further reading: What do Chickens Eat Alternative Feed For Backyard Chickens What to Feed Your Chickens For Better Tasting Eggs Can Chickens Eat Citrus? Maat van UitertMaat van Uitert is a backyard chicken and sustainable living expert. She is also the author of Chickens: Naturally Raising A Sustainable Flock, which was a best seller in it’s…

fermenting chick starter

Ferment Chicken Feed Safely With These Strategies!

With these tips, you can ferment chick starter feed safely! Chickens need feed. That is an unavoidable fact. With the right feed, chickens will grow up big and healthy, and then your darling feathery friends will give you all the love that they have.  While all feed is good, there are easy adjustments that you…

messy mildred chicken shampoo

We Tested Messy Mildred Chicken Shampoo. Here’s What Happened!

Maat van UitertMaat van Uitert is a backyard chicken and sustainable living expert. She is also the author of Chickens: Naturally Raising A Sustainable Flock, which was a best seller in it’s Amazon category.  Maat has been featured on NBC, CBS, AOL Finance, Community Chickens, the Huffington Post, Chickens magazine, Backyard Poultry, and Countryside Magazine. She lives on her…

chicken guard coop door with LCD screen

ChickenGuard Self Locking Door Kit Review

For this review, we were sent a ChickenGuard Automatic Chicken Coop Door Opener with Self Locking Door Kit to test. All opinions expressed are our honest review of this product. In this article, we’ll cover our review of the self-locking door kit and standard automatic door opener. In a subsequent review, we’ll show how we…

poultry grit with chicken

Poultry Grit: Your Questions Answered!

Chickens don’t have teeth. To help them digest their food, owners must provide their hens and roosters with poultry grit.  Mainly made of crushed granite, it helps the chicken grind down their food while in the gizzard, the part of their stomach where food and grit are mixed together with all the acids and digestive…