9 Rules for Hatching Eggs
Hatching chicken eggs artificially using an incubator is a rewarding experience. If you have a rooster you can use fertilized eggs from your own flock, or you can find fertile chicken eggs for sale from a neighbor...
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Essential Secrets for Raising Chicks
– Raising chicks is a fun and rewarding process for the whole family. There is a lot of information out there about how to raise chicks, but there are a few things most articles leave...
The Perfect Egg Incubator
There are many reasons that you might choose to hatch eggs artificially using an egg incubator. Perhaps you don’t have a broody hen or a safe space for her to raise her chicks, maybe you...
Guide to Backyard Chickens & How to Raise Chickens
Keeping backyard chickens is an easy first step to living a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle. Compared to keeping other livestock, raising chickens is easy. They come home every night, lay eggs faithfully, can eat...
Breaking a Broody Hen
A broody hen is compelled by changes in daylight, hormones, and natural instincts to sit on a clutch of eggs until they hatch. Broody hen behavior is very distinctive. She stays on her nest...
So, You’ve Got a Broody Hen
A broody hen is one that wants to raise chicks. At some point in your chicken raising career, you’ll encounter one of these tenacious birds. A broody hen is determined to sit on her...
Make Your Own Organic Chicken Feed
Most chicken keepers want to feed their hens non-GMO, organic chicken feed. After all, you’ll be eating their eggs and possibly their meat. Commercial organic chicken feed is a great option, but one that can...
Poultry Raising: 9 Tips for Raising Chickens
Even if you’re soft at heart, name your flock, refer to them as “the girls” and just can’t bring yourself to raise chickens for meat, they are very useful as livestock. You can just raise...
Tips For Keeping Urban Chickens
Just because you don’t live in the country doesn’t mean you can’t produce some of your own food. Urban agriculture is on the rise because everyone wants fresher, healthier and cheaper groceries. Your mini...
What To Feed Chickens For Higher Egg Yield
When keeping chickens, one will eventually have to think about what to feed a chicken for maximal egg production. Feeding chickens for the purpose of making them produce more eggs requires a little research...
