Set Up A Quarantine Coop When Adding Chickens
February 5, 2020When bringing home new chickens, it’s important to keep birds separate for a time period. Here are the whys and hows of setting up a quarantine coop.
When bringing home new chickens, it’s important to keep birds separate for a time period. Here are the whys and hows of setting up a quarantine coop.
If you’re eager to share your love of chicken keeping with the uninitiated, consider planning and hosting a coop tour in your area.
If you have more than one rooster in your flock, sometimes the leadership changes and it gets ugly. Here’s how to ease transition after rooster overthrow.
Raccoons persisted until finding a way into one of our coops and killing all but 2 chickens. Here are potential weak points and how to secure them.
Birds who’ve spent their whole lives in a brooder might be shocked or stressed at an abrupt transition to a coop. Here’s how to make that easier.
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.
Spring and summer bring severe weather in the form of storms and tornadoes. Prepare your coop to keep your chickens safe.
Show your love of poultry — and show your poultry some love — with rooster, hen and chic(k) décor as well as products to benefit your flock.
It turns out that a lot what authors advocated in the early 20th century, when many Americans kept backyard chickens, still holds true today.
A heatwave mixed with rain made our henhouses reek, which motivated me to test various treatments to control coop odor. See which won.