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Rhode Island Red Chickens
If you walked into almost any farm store in America during chick days and asked the staff which breed a …
Cold Hardy Chicken Breeds
It’s February, 7 degrees outside, and you’re trudging through a foot of snow to check on your …
Friendly Chicken Breeds
Picture this: you’re sitting in a lawn chair on a Saturday morning, coffee in hand, and a fluffy golden …
Dual Purpose Chicken Breeds
Imagine you order 25 chicks in the spring, raise them all summer, and then realize you can only keep 8 laying …
Best Egg Laying Chickens
If you’ve ever stood in front of a feed store bin of chicks, heart rate climbing, trying to remember …
Best Chicken Breeds For Beginners
You ordered six “beginner-friendly” chicks from a hatchery, picked up your brooder supplies, and …
How Many Chickens Should I Get
Most people start with three chickens. Then they go to pick them up, see all those fluffy little faces, and …
Starting A Backyard Flock
The first egg I ever collected was from a Black Australorp named Harriet, and I carried it inside with both …
How To Raise Chickens
Your first flock of baby chicks arrives in a small cardboard box, peeping like crazy, and you realize you have …
Backyard Chickens For Beginners
Your neighbor shows up at your fence one Saturday morning holding a cardboard box with holes punched in the …