No single method works on all predators. Here's how to determine the threats your birds face and defend your flock accordingly.
A chicken-keeper, homesteader and author turns from prose to poetry in his new book on living the farm life, "99½ Homesteading Poems."
You've unexpectedly run out of chicken feed. Try one or more of these tips to keep your hungry chickens fed until you can get more.
You might not wash your farm-fresh eggs right away, or you might buy them unwashed from a farmer. Here's how to safely prepare them for use.
Here's an excerpt from the book, "Hentopia," that's filled with DIY projects, including this feeder made from a plastic bucket.
Are you looking for unusual chicken breeds to beautify your backyard flock? Check out these four exotic birds from across the Atlantic.
Grit and oyster shell look alike but play different roles in chicken nutrition and health. They're each necessary, and they're not interchangeable.
When holistic and organic approaches fail, try these treatments to help free your flock from infestation of internal parasites.
For Jaime Cool and her family, an off the grid homestead of livestock, produce and bees takes a lot of work. But "it's a good life not many people get to experience."
Therse Steps are Crucial to Getting Your Geese & Ducks Through Hot Weather
In the final part of this series, we continue alphabetically through chicken health issues with scaly leg mites, thrush, transmission of disease and vaccination.
Asian lady beetles, box-elder bugs and darkling beetles are not parasitic or particularly harmful insects, but chickens won't eat them, and they love coops.
