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How To Care For Your Baby Chicks Weeks 7-16 [Podcast]

March 12, 2018 by Maat

How To Care For Your Baby Chicks Weeks 7-16 [Podcast]

Last week we tackled your backyard chicken’s first 6 weeks, and in this episode we take on weeks 7-16!   (Want to listen to last week’s episode first? Click here!)   Weeks 7-16 are a little bit different then weeks 1-6 (especially weeks 11-16!) so we break down how you should care for your chicks each… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens, Podcast Tagged With: apple cider vinegar, chick starter, Chickens, chicks, eggs, grower feed, hens, medicated chick starter, pullets, roosters

What Your Chicken Coop Should Include (Plus…Mistakes To Avoid) [Podcast]

March 5, 2018 by Maat

What Your Chicken Coop Should Include (Plus…Mistakes To Avoid) [Podcast]

On our homestead, we have more than one chicken coop.   We have something like 200 chickens on the farm, and so we have a 100 year old chicken coop and a second, more modern home for our flock.     Both chicken coop designs are great, and serve their purpose (keeping our chicken flock… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens, Podcast Tagged With: chicken coop, chicken coop homestead, free chicken coop plans, roosting bars

How To Care For Baby Chicks Weeks 1-6 [Podcast]

February 23, 2018 by Maat

How To Care For Baby Chicks Weeks 1-6 [Podcast]

Baby chicks require special care – that’s pretty much a fact.   And they’re fragile! Luckily, in this episode, we delve into the care they need week by week, as we explore the first 6 weeks of your new flock members’ lives.   (Want to learn about weeks 7-16? Click here for the next episode!)… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens, Podcast Tagged With: apple cider vinegar, chick starter, Chickens, chicks, eggs, hens, podcast, pullets, roosters

Chicken Feeding Myths BUSTED! [Podcast]

September 12, 2017 by Maat

Chicken Feeding Myths BUSTED! [Podcast]

Time to bust some Chicken Feed Myths! No, your backyard chickens won’t turn into cannibals if you feed them eggs.   But there’s plenty of bad advice and chicken feeding myths out there that would advise you otherwise – that’s why it’s so important to know what’s okay to feed your flock and what’s toxic.… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens, Podcast Tagged With: avocado, backyard chickens, Chickens, eggs, feeding chickens, onions

Why Your Chickens Stopped Laying Eggs: What The Cluck?! Episode 81

September 5, 2017 by Maat

Why Your Chickens Stopped Laying Eggs: What The Cluck?! Episode 81

I frequently have readers ask me why their hens have stopped laying eggs, so I addressed common reasons in this episode of What The Cluck?! Bottom line: I don’t know why your particular hen has stopped laying, but using this episode as a guide, you can trouble shoot common reasons! (Spoiler alert: It’s usually their… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens, Podcast Tagged With: Chickens, chickens stopped laying, eggs, podcast

Backyard Chickens Might Give You Salmonella? Here’s Deets On The CDC Warning!

September 1, 2017 by Maat

Backyard Chickens Might Give You Salmonella? Here’s Deets On The CDC Warning!

The backyard chicken portion of the Internet has broken with the news that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has issued warnings that backyard chickens might be the cause of a recent salmonella outbreak.   In fact, the organization is warning chicken keepers to not kiss or hug their chickens for fear that you might… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens, Podcast Tagged With: Chickens, salmonella

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  • We've added several new mugs and tumblers to our shop this week. I'm excited because this is a project we've had in the works for a while!
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I think the backyard chicken life should be celebrated. Chickens are such wonderful pets!
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I love taking these mugs with me to the coop (filled with hot chocolate since I can't drink coffee) and spending some quiet time with my flock before the day really begins!
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Featured: "Life Is Better On The Farm" mug. Link in profile.
  • I have a love /hate relationship with this tiny rooster. He's all of 3 inches high but loves to attack my feet. I seriously have no idea why.
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He's a rescue and I'm pretty sure the reason I got him is because, to someone not experienced with chickens, he can be scary.
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But I wear boots in my coop all the time. So, he's essentially a mosquito. It's pretty cute.
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Sometimes he wanders off and I have to catch him. He doesn't like that, and protests loudly. But he doesn't attack me. He just squaks loudly.
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But when I have a treat? He's my best friend. What a character!
  • Well we've been battling an ice storm for the past couple days (which is why you didn't hear from me yesterday). Unfortunately, on Saturday, the wind blew the door to my coop shut, so the fluffy butts had to deal with the ice and wind.
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It was so icy here that several telephone poles bent, and the electric wires were nearly on the ground (not on our farm, on a main road).
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About half my flock was wet and cold and shivering. So, everyone went into dog crates and into the cabin, where I could run a heater safely.
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The worst of the lot - my 2 cochin bantam hens - also got their feathers blown dry.
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I don't regularly blow dry my flock, but these 2 hens LOVED it! They just sat there while the hair dryer was on low heat, and enjoyed hanging out with me.
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I think they liked the warmth - they were pretty cold after all! They got plenty of WormBGone (which has warming herbs in it) and their layer feed that we blend ourselves, so they were happy!
  • I'm happy to tell you that reader Diane reports her rooster, Victor, is doing much better after an episode of mysterious blindness. .
Diane emailed me a week ago to ask advice to help Victor out. He suddenly went blind, without much explanation.
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There's a lot of reasons why any animal can go blind temporarily, and Diane did the best thing, which is consult a veterinarian. .
I'm glad to hear Victor's sight has returned, and he's back with his lovely girlfriends in their coop, just in time for Valentine's Day! ❤
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I'll be sending Victor and his girlfriends some BEE A Happy Hen to celebrate!
  • Now that the days are getting longer, it looks like I need to remove even more young roosters from the main coop. There were 3 that didn't cause any trouble over winter (very pretty ones, too), but now that spring is clearly on everyone's mind, they're bothering the hens too much.
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Most of these roosters are ones I bred - Easter Egger mixes that have pea combs and beards. They're very pretty!
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In the tornado last week, one of my temporary coops lost its life, so I'll probably use pieces of that to complete a new coop for these roosters, and give each one a couple ladies.
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I have a feeling by the end of this year, we'll be over run with lovely, bearded chickens. These guys do carry the blue egg laying gene - one's mother was Mama who laid olive colored eggs and the other's mother was Hawk who laid blue eggs).
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If paired with hens who carry the gene, their offspring might lay colored eggs as well.
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We're still getting green eggs from someone (I still haven't figured out who), and I think when the remainder of the roosters leave the coop, it'll prompt my other hens to start laying.
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And this year, I'm having Black Copper Marans hens sent to me, so pretty soon, we should have very colorful egg baskets every morning!

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