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Designing a Chicken-Friendly Garden

A well-designed landscape can transform your garden into an extension of your home, offering an attractive and productive outdoor living space. For our feathered friends, a well-designed garden can offer protection and safe shelter as well as food for them to forage. While landscape design is probably not the first thing you think of when […]

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When Planning Your Garden, Don’t Forget To Plan For Your Chickens Also

With the snow and ice beginning to melt, are you dreaming of your garden? Looking at seed catalogs. Sketching your garden plans on paper. Starting seeds inside. Wanting to feel the dirt on your hands. Smelling the earth as it thaws out. As you plan your garden this year, don’t forget to plan for your […]

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7 Early Vegetables to Grow for You and Your Flock

by Melissa Caughey of Tilly’s Nest Do you garden? Why not plant some veggies that have a bigger bang for their buck this year, especially for the chickens? Chickens love fresh treats from the vegetable garden. Many times they happily eat leaves, stems and roots. They also don’t mind bug chewed leaves that normally would […]

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