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