How To Keep Your Chickens Laying Through The Winter

How To Keep Your Chickens Laying Through The Winter

Today we’re going to talk about how to keep your chickens laying through winter. And since mine have started to drop off in production, this is a topic near and dear to my heart. There are many reasons why a hen can drop off production in the winter, and we’re going to look at reasons…

Are My Chicks Hens Or Roosters?

Are My Chicks Hens Or Roosters?

More reading: 7 Tricks To Sex Baby Chicks How To Sex Ducklings By Quacks 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…

How to Catch a Rooster (with and without your hands)

How to Catch a Rooster (with and without your hands)

Do you need to know how to catch a rooster with your hands but are 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…

DIY Pumpkin Vase Chicken Coop Decoration For Fall
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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…

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

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

If your chickens have worms, it can seriously derail their egg-laying. Why not make them a deworming treat? Roundworms, cecal worms, hookworms…oh my! 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…