Tips For Improving The Doors In Your Chicken Coop
September 22, 2020Chicken-keepers know that coop doors are critical to flock safety. These six tips keep things tight while improving chores for you, too.
7 Reasons To Choose Ducks Over Chickens
January 18, 2016Lisa Steele Backyard chickens are all the rage nowadays in rural and urban areas alike. Many towns and even cities are changing their laws to allow a small flock of chickens, but why not consider a few ducks instead? Ducks might actually make more sense for your family and be easier on your yard […]
5 Ways To Talk To Your HOA About Keeping Chickens
January 18, 2016Still not allowed to keep chickens where you live? Something’s gotta change.
11 Reasons to Keep Backyard Chickens
January 18, 2016Need a good reason to move beyond mere consideration and build the backyard coop? Here are reasons that will motivate you.
Chicken Anatomy 101
January 18, 2016Use these diagrams to help you learn more about hen and rooster anatomy.
4 People Who Judge Your Urban Chickens
October 21, 2015Rachel Hurd Anger Chicken keepers have supporters and critics everywhere. From rural career farmers to city dwellers, judgments are all over the map. Here are four types of people who have opinions about your urban farming habits. Can you name these people in your community? 1. The Encouraging Ally The best supporter is often a […]
4 Tips For Selling Backyard Eggs
March 19, 2015Every year I look forward to my local newspaper’s holiday haiku contest. Its many ‘winners’ see their poems published in the Christmas edition of the Courier-Journal. In 2014, a sign nailed to a mailbox post stating “Fresh Eggs” inspired me to submit this: ”Fresh Eggs!” shingles read. Yoking to activism, Metro Cluckers flock. When we […]
How to Store Backyard Eggs
February 13, 2015On the counter or in the fridge? This is what you need to know about keeping your chickens’ eggs before it’s time time to eat them.
What Do I Do With Small Eggs?
January 30, 2015Our backyard chickens usually produce an inconsistent product. Their eggs vary in shape, size and color, mostly because we collect a variety of breeds based on their coloring, lace, combs, cold hardiness, heat tolerance, egg colors and sizes—whatever tickles our fancy, really. Whether or not we realize it, those of us with many different breeds […]
Free Backyard Chickens Webinar
November 2, 2010Courtesy Stock.XCHNG Learn about backyard chicken biosecurity in “The Word on Healthy Birds” webinar. This week, Nov. 1 to 7, 2010, the USDA’s Biosecurity for Birds campaign will celebrate Bird Health Awareness Week to promote awareness about the diseases that threaten poultry health and the ways to prevent the spread of infectious poultry diseases. Highlighting […]
