Get basic information on chickens and how to raise chicks to get you started on having the best type of chickens for your farm, backyard, or family homestead.

You'll find information on the 3 types of chicken categories you can choose from to get the most benefits from your chickens.

Continue reading "How to Raise Chickens"

Learn about some of the best breeds of egg laying chickens and what may be the best chicken for your property.

You see every breed has a certain personality and traits that may be better suited for your family or for your climate.

Continue reading "Types of Chickens"

First, you need to determine if your local rules and regulations will allow raising chickens on your property.

Then you will need to decide on the type of chicken house that will work best for you.

There are many designs to choose from and you will have to decide which one is best for your particular living environment.

Chicken houses can come in many sizes and shapes.  They can be built from various materials and can be made from what you have lying around your property. 

Basically, a chicken house should be big enough for the amount of chickens you are housing as well as provide nesting boxes, water, extra feed, and a roosting bar for chickens to sleep on at night.

There must be ample ventilation or insulation as well as enough light which is very important to the continuous laying of eggs.

It must also be secure enough to keep out predators that might try to invade when you're not looking.

Building a chicken coop for chickens can be made really simple and even portable. 

Get some design ideas for your farm or backyard chickens.

Continue reading "Building a Chicken Coop"

Although chickens can live for a pretty long time, they produce the most chicken eggs during the first few years of their life.

All chickens or hens lay eggs, but some breeds are better egg layers than others. 

Certain chicken breeds will lay white eggs, some will lay brown, and others will lay cream, pink, green or blue colored eggs.

Warning!  Once you've experienced fresh farm eggs that come from chickens that are allowed to roam freely on pasture, you'll never want to buy those "commercial" chicken eggs again!

What makes a big difference in the quality of a chicken egg is the type of foods your chickens eat and the amount of sunshine they will receive.

Find out why you only want to eat pastured raised eggs!

And depending on whether you have a rooster hanging around your hens, you'll have fertilized eggs that you can consume or hatch into chicks.

Find out what chickens will lay pink, chocolate, green, and blue colored eggs. 

And get some information on what may be the best way to store your fresh chicken eggs.

Continue reading "Types of Eggs"

In general, chickens can find their own food.  That's as long as they are given enough access to the outdoors to forage for food like greens and bugs.

In reality, most chickens will need to be given supplemental feed of some sort like food scraps or grains.

Chickens are omnivores like pigs and humans.  And they can eat just about anything! 

However, that doesn't mean that you should feed them -  just anything! 

When chickens are fed a nutritious diet, their egg yolks will be a dark orange color and will be full of nutrition.

Learn about what chickens can and will eat.  Also, get some tips on what you should feed your chickens to get really tasty and healthy eggs.

And by the way, chickens are not vegetarians!! 

I cannot stress this enough.  In fact, my chickens loved eating animal foods just as much as I do! 

Continue reading "What do Chickens Eat?"

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