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6 Brilliant Gift Ideas For Your Chickens

Today we are going to talk about the top five gifts for your chickens! It may seem like giving gifts for your chickens is somewhat frivolous, but if you’ve followed me for a while, you know that I support chicken toys!!! I think that they’re a good idea. Even though on the surface they seem…

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Chicken Wire = Dead Flock?? Confessions from the Coop

Someone commented on my latest YouTube video that if you use chicken wire, you’ll definitely lose your backyard chicken flock. I think it’s funny when people say this or that will DEFINITELY happen – especially if “that thing” runs against the grain of their opinion. When it comes to chickens and ducks, you should always…

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The Perfect Gift Guide For Backyard Chicken Lovers

Everyone, Christmas is coming!  Christmas sneaks up on us so quickly, doesn’t it? I swear it was just July! One of the worst parts of Christmas is trying to think of gift ideas for everyone on your list. It can take hours and can be stressful too. Well, let me take the stress away. I’ve…

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DIY Pumpkin Vase Chicken Coop Decoration For Fall

Fall is here, y’all. And that makes it a perfect time to decorate your chicken coop with a cute fall display of pumpkins and mums. Why decorate your coop? Well, certainly you don’t HAVE to. But it looks kind of cool, and if you do it right, you can recycle your fall decorations as healthy…

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Will we have new chicks??? Confessions from the Coop (TM)

It finally happened (backyard chicken style). The baby bantams have started laying! My buff cochin hens have started laying the tiniest, perfect brown eggs. I KNOW they’re fertile (thanks to my silkie roosters!), so I’m going to start collecting to hatch them. How cute will that be? Out of all my chickens, the cochin bantams…

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5 Backyard Chicken Friendly High Protein Treats For Fall

As the days get shorter, and your backyard chickens begin to molt, you might want to supplement their diet with high protein treats. And luckily, there’s lots of options! Molting is a normal process in the fall – it’s when chickens start losing their feathers to regrow new ones. By the time it’s super chilly,…