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Raising Chickens

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If you haven’t started raising your own chickens, you’re in for a treat. Having your own backyard flock is fun and addictive. Chickens have their own personalities, are friendly, funny and sweet. There’s nothing like having a few hens see you step outside and come running up to greet you (looking for treats). And how many ‘pets’ provide breakfast as a perk?

Getting Started with Chickens:

  • 30 Things to Know Before You Get Chickens
  • Are Chickens Right for You?
  • 20+ Reasons Why You Should Raise Chickens
  • How to Raise Chickens (Without Breaking the Bank)
  • Newbie Chicken Owners Beware
  • 14 Sure-fire Ways to Have Unhappy Hens
  • The Cost of Raising Chickens
  • Chick Check List and Resources
  • Setting up a Brooder for Your Baby Chicks

Chicken Problems (Behavior):

  • Learn What’s Wrong with your Hen by Knowing Her Body Language
  • Adding New Chickens to Your Existing Flock
  • Ways to Help Break Broodiness in a Hen
  • Introducing New Chicks to a Broody Hen (for Her to Raise)
  • Dealing with a Bully Hen in Your Flock
  • Do You Have Room for More Hens?
  • How to Get Your Hens to Lay in the Nest Box

Chicken Problems (Illness):

  • How to Treat Egg Bound Chickens
  • Natural Treatment for Chicken Lice
  • Poultry Mites
  • Treating Bumblefoot (with Surgery)
  • Treating Sour Crop Naturally
  • General Guidelines for Using Essential Oils with Your Flock
  • Using Essential Oils to Treat Sick Hens: Common Chicken Conditions, Eye Impurity, Undetermined Bug 

Chicken Coop (and DIY Projects):

  • Chicken Coop 101: The Basic of What a Coop Needs
  • Designing Your Chicken Coop
  • 10 Hacks to Keep Your Chicken Water Thawed During Winter
  • How to Make a DIY Chicken Water Heater For Less than $4.
  • How to Make a Homemade Chicken Feeder
  • How Much Space Does a Chicken Take?
  • Should You Put Light in Your Coop During Winter?
  • How to Make a Nest Box From a Milk Crate
  • How to Make a Dust Bath Area for Your Coop
  • How to Deal with Wasp Nests in the Chicken Coop
  • How to Make a Chicken Saddle (protection from an over active rooster)
  • How to Make Your Own Suet Cakes

Chickens and Eggs:

  • How to Treat Egg Bound Chickens
  • How to Tell if Your Chickens are Laying
  • To Clean or Not to Clean Your Backyard Eggs
  • When Egg Laying Goes Awry (A Case Study from One of My Hens)
  • Why Hens Stop Laying
  • What are Those TINY TINY Eggs in the Nest Box?
  • Why do Hens Lay RUBBER Eggs?

Feeding Chickens:

  • A Simple Solution to Help Your Chickens Exercise in Winter Months
  • What is Diatomaceous Earth (and Seven Ways to Use it)
  • Giving Your Hens Egg Shells for Calcium
  • Is Turmeric Good for Your Hens
  • Things Chickens Shouldn’t Eat
  • Should You Feed your New Chicks Medicated Chick Starter or Not?
  • How to Plant a Chicken Foraging Garden (for Your Flock to Eat)

Misc Chicken Solutions to Common Problems:

  • Chickens in Winter: 12 Ways to Prep your Flock for Colder  Weather
  • Chickens in Hot Weather: 17 Way to Keep Your Flock Cool in the Summer
  • What to Do About Flies Around the Chicken Coop?
  • What is Dust Bathing and Why to Chickens Do it
  • What is Molting and What Can Be Done to Help?
  • What’s Stalking Your Flock (and How to Protect Them)
  • Cooper’s Hawks: How to Protect Your Flock
  • Chickens and Snow

Misc Chicken Education:

  • All About Wattles and Combs
  • Chicken Terminology
  • Weird Chicken Facts
  • What do Your Chickens See? 

Chicken Stories:

  • Posts related to allowing hens hatch eggs: Harriet’s Gonna be a Mommy, A Chicken and Her Eggs (part 2 on Harriet), Baby Chicks Grow So Fast, Don’t Count Your Chicks Before They Hatch, Penelope and her Chicks
  • What my Cat Taught Me About City Farming
  • When Chickens Get Sick
  • The Math of City Farming
  • The Chicken Who Changed My Life
  • Does your Postal Working Know how to Butcher Chickens?

 

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As the editor of  this site, I am a chicken owner (and chicken lover!), a researcher and writer.  I’m not a veterinarian or other animal professional nor a doctor or other medical professional. 
Please do your own research and talk to your own trusted medical personnel. And be safe. See the whole disclaimer/disclosure here:

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