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How to Catch a Rooster with Your Hands

December 26, 2018 by Maat

How to Catch a Rooster with Your Hands

Do you need to know how to catch a rooster with your hands but afraid you’ll get hurt?   Read along to discover how I catch the most aggressive rooster in my backyard chicken flock – without getting a scratch on me! While it’s completely natural for roosters to protect their territory, it’s also a… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens Tagged With: Chickens, chicks, hens, roosters

How To Stop A Rooster Attack

December 7, 2018 by Maat

How To Stop A Rooster Attack

A common question I get from chicken owners is how to stop or retrain a rooster from attacking them or a family member.   Now, I’m not going to lie. This isn’t the easiest thing to do in the world.   When a rooster attacks, it’s called “flogging” (how’s that for a wonderfully descriptive, not-very-much-fun… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens Tagged With: backyard chickens, chicks, hens, rooster

Pumpkin Seed, Cayenne, & Wormwood Deworming Treat For Backyard Chickens!

August 21, 2018 by Maat

Pumpkin Seed, Cayenne, & Wormwood Deworming Treat For Backyard Chickens!

If your chickens have worms, it can seriously derail their egg laying.   Worms (aka freeloaders) rob your hens of vital nutrients while making it more difficult to pass manure, and generally just trash the insides of your chickens – so you gotta get rid of them (and it doesn’t hurt to be proactive).  … Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens Tagged With: backyard chickens, berries, best laying hens, bumblefoot, cayenne pepper, eggs, garlic, hens, jalapeno, kale, peppers, pumpkin, sickness, vitamins chickens, worms, wormwood

Why Is There Water In My Eggs? Today’s Q&A!

August 6, 2018 by Maat

Why Is There Water In My Eggs? Today’s Q&A!

Today’s daily question comes from a reader who’s finding water in the eggs her hens lay.   Yep, it was a mystery to me at first as well, but after asking some questions, I was able to sort out why this hen has been laying eggs filled with water – and my answer is not… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens, Daily Question Tagged With: broody chickens, Chickens, eggs, hens

DIY Pumpkin Vase Chicken Coop Decoration For Fall

August 3, 2018 by Maat

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… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens, DIY Tagged With: backyard chickens, diy, fall, fall garden, flowers, hens, pumpkin, pumpkin fall, roosters

Homemade Suet Cakes For Chickens: Great Boredom Busters!

July 31, 2018 by Maat

Homemade Suet Cakes For Chickens: Great Boredom Busters!

Crafting homemade suet cakes for chickens is a simple way to boost the fat in your flock’s diet while giving them a way to stay occupied.   In fact, a frequent question I get is “Can chickens eat suet cakes?,” and not only is the answer a definitive “YES!” but feeding diy suet cakes to… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens, Sustainable Living Tagged With: backyard chickens, chicken feed, chicken treats, Chickens, coops, diet, eggs, hens, homemade suet cakes for chickens, roosters, suet cakes

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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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