How to Raise Chickens Library

Are you new to keeping chickens? Chickens make great pets, as well as providing freshly laid eggs. And luckily, keeping a few backyard chickens is surprisingly easy!This handy beginners guide draws on our years of experience keeping chickens, so you can avoid making the same mistakes we did. Check out our answers to the most common chicken-keeping FAQs from beginning chicken keepers.What do I need to keep chickens?You can get all the bells and whistles. You can even get a chicken swing! But

To heat or not, predator protection, managing molting, and other alliterative ways to prep your poultry for winter from Elizabeth Mack. Winter is here—if an arctic blast hasn’t surprised you already! While chickens are quite hardy, they do need some special cold-weather management, depending on your location and breed of chicken. Taking a few steps to prepare your flock now for the coming season will ensure they’re safe and snug for winter. Managing Molting   

  Ready for a crash course on how to raise chicks? You came to the right place! Were going to cover everything you need to know about raising your first brood of chicks. This includes how to prep the brooder, how to feed and water your new babies, how to monitor and adjust supplemental heat, how to spot health issues, and what their daily care requires. Raising baby chicks is work, but it’s also fun and immensely rewarding. Let’s get started!   #1. Prepping the Brooder The brooder is

By Kenny Coogan, Florida “When we were given five or six adult chickens, we learned that we had to keep the chickens out of the garden area, so we put up a chicken wire fence around the vegetable beds,” Demi Stearns recalls. Stearns, who had previously been gardening without chickens for five years, learned the hard way that chickens are voracious eaters. Now, in about her 40th year of gardening while keeping chickens, Stearns has mastered garden coexistence. Chickens, Stearns says, “eat all