by Shannon Cole of Country Girl In The Village Spring season is upon us and many people are looking to add birds to their coops or start from scratch and are beginning to search out which chicken breeds they may be interested in. When I first started to look into building a flock and coop of my own, beyond the […]
Read more »by Shannon Cole of Country Girl In The Village Spring season is upon us and many people are looking to add birds to their coops or start from scratch and are beginning to search out which chicken breeds they may be interested in. When I first started to look into building a flock and coop of my own, beyond the […]
Read more »by Liz Hessen of For the Love of Chicken Poop Looking back on our own chicken keeping adventures this topic is one that just can’t be stressed too much. If you are a newbie in the chick keeping world you should learn the signs of heat stress/exhaustion, how to prevent and treat it. Watermelon is […]
Read more »by Liz Hessen of For the Love of Chicken Poop Looking back on our own chicken keeping adventures this topic is one that just can’t be stressed too much. If you are a newbie in the chick keeping world you should learn the signs of heat stress/exhaustion, how to prevent and treat it. Watermelon is […]
Read more »by Jennifer Sartell So I know that tomatoes aren’t in season right now, but we are getting ready to plant 3 trays of heirloom tomato seedlings and my freezer still looks like this… and this… and this… And my egg baskets look like this… and this… Our tomato plants went NUTS last year. We planted […]
Read more »by Jennifer Sartell So I know that tomatoes aren’t in season right now, but we are getting ready to plant 3 trays of heirloom tomato seedlings and my freezer still looks like this… and this… and this… And my egg baskets look like this… and this… Our tomato plants went NUTS last year. We planted […]
Read more »by Kathy Shea Mormino, The Chicken Chick This is Rachel. If you haven’t already made her acquaintance, she’s something of a hen icon on my Facebook page where she appears daily in all her puffy cuteness. Rachel is a Bantam Cochin Frizzle. Cochin is her breed, bantam describes her miniature size and frizzle describes her unusual feathers. Frizzles are the divas of […]
Read more »by Kathy Shea Mormino, The Chicken Chick This is Rachel. If you haven’t already made her acquaintance, she’s something of a hen icon on my Facebook page where she appears daily in all her puffy cuteness. Rachel is a Bantam Cochin Frizzle. Cochin is her breed, bantam describes her miniature size and frizzle describes her unusual feathers. Frizzles are the divas of […]
Read more »by Heather Nicholson of Scratch Cradle Are you getting more eggs in your basket? In spring as the day length increases, chickens will lay more frequently. Did you know that leg color, egg color, and behavior may change as well? Chickens lay fewer eggs in the winter and more in the spring and summer. As […]
Read more »by Liz Hessen of For the Love of Chicken Poop I’ve hesitated writing tips, dos and don’ts about baby chicks and their care because there’s so much already written … why repeat it? Why not! Part of our six-ring circus! Looking back on some of our chick experiences (even before the chicks arrived) I realized […]
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