There are different ways to protect chickens against predators, but electric fencing is one popular and effective method. Here's how to get started with electrified poultry protection.
You can have it all—a friendly flock of chickens and a relaxing vacation away from home. Here are some tips for getting away without getting in trouble.
Spice up your brown and white egg basket with some color. From blue to pink, green to yellow, you can get a rainbow of egg colors with the right chickens!
The popular Damsel in a Farm Dress gardener and homesteader tells us about formulating your own feed and learning life lessons from poultry.
Used correctly, chickens can turn soil, eliminate weeds and pests, fertilize and more in your garden or growing space. Here are some tips for gardening with chickens.
Neighbors resistant to your backyard flock may harbor common misconceptions about chickens. Here are the top seven myths, and ways you can avoid them.
Dennita Miskimen of Virginia-based agriculture venture The Red Barn Farm tells us about the importance of eggs and fostering community.
It's exciting to see your chicks hatch from their eggs, but keep an eye on your new little birds for these common conditions, some of which can prove fatal.
In a perfect world, your neighbors would fall in love with your backyard chickens. But when disapproving residents raise a ruckus, you need to do these things.
Christie Birchfield from the Georgia-based Birchie's Hobby Farm tells us about learning beneficial life lessons from gardening and her Crested Cream Legbar chickens.
You want backyard chickens, but are your neighbors on board with the idea? Here are some ways to help them get (and stay) positive about domestic poultry.
Chicken chatter? Wattle wooing? Spontaneous sex reversal? We rounded up even more fascinating facts about everyone's favorite barnyard fowl.
