Sarah Hock from the Washington-based homestead Cats and Cluckers tells us about the virtues of a life surrounded by poultry.
After a move to rural Tennessee, Alison Davis and her husband decided to get six layer hens—and their chicken flock just grew from there to include free-ranging chickens and even ducks.
Give your flock a job by setting up an egg CSA for feed funds, good food for your neighbors and food production education for those who want to know more.
Want poultry but don't have the land for chickens? Quail are quiet, easy-keeping birds that you can raise for both eggs and meat.
The Chicks Next Door farm founder Annie Dye talks about her star rooster, Napolean, and the secret to the irresistible appeal of rainbow eggs.
Looking at four more popular chicken breeds, we discuss real-life experiences keeping Dutch Booted Bantams, Japanese Bantams, Polish and Marans.
Notebooks may be the proven way to track farm data, but you can manage your whole farm right from your phone with handy apps like these!
Continuing with our look at popular breeds, we discuss real-life experiences keeping Araucana, Cochin, Easter Egger and Welsummer chickens.
These Say Cheese contenders include mischievous goats, a diminutive donkey, pretty pigs and more, so check out this photo roundup from Hobby Farms readers!
There's a lot of poultry information out there—not all of it true—so our resident chicken expert is sharing decades of experience about popular chicken breeds.
Nicole Palmer from the Long Island-based Palmz Family Farmette tells us how farming can turn bad days into glorious times.
We've rounded up 9 lessons for anyone considering adding animals to their farm or just want to make raising livestock a little bit easier!
