Although they’re not the most likely of companion animals, chickens can help bring joy to humans in recovery.
Integrate your flock into a healthy growing system that is self-supporting.
Trapping an unwanted wild animal in your backyard can not only injure you or the animal, it could be illegal.
Different from a draft, coop ventilation is needed year-round to keep your flock from getting sick or frostbitten.
Once a predator of the western desert, the coyote is making its way into suburbia across the U.S. Here’s what you need to know.
A sick or injured chicken’s road to recovery starts with the chicken keeper.
Select breeds, monitor hatching and keep your coop organized with one of these apps, suited for beginning to experienced chicken keepers.
Use coffee grounds and chaff around your urban farm to enhance your garden, make great compost, and provide a comfy place for chickens and rabbits to live.
Help a broody hen kick its nesting habit by providing her some fertile eggs to incubate.
Jen Good/Flickr As a backyard flock owner, it’s tempting to dismiss the Center for Disease Control’s warnings about close contact with your chickens being a health risk. It’s not like you have a factory farm with overcrowding that leads to disease, which leads to overuse of drugs, which leads to drug-resistant disease mutations, which spread […]
The dry heat of the southwestern U.S. poses unique challenges for backyard chicken keepers—but not anything you can’t overcome.
Protect your city flock’s feed from thieving sparrows and rodents with this no-waste feeder solution
