When it's summer and hot (and your chickens are panting and spreading their wings in the coop, the coop roof is too hot to touch without getting burned) and you're worried about the heat, it's...
Category: Chickens
How Long You Can Safely Store Fresh Eggs (on the counter, in the fridge, etc)
When you're collecting fresh eggs from your backyard chickens, you'll wonder how long you can safely store them. And you'll wonder if storing them in different places (like the fridge or countertop)...
Whether you're considering adding goats to chickens (or chickens to goats), it's important to know if it's possible to have both together. And it's even more important to know how to keep them...
Sometimes chicken coops get muddy. It can happen for a lot of reasons - from rain to flooding to sprinklers to drainage issues to an open run. But what can you do when your chicken coop is...
As we've been researching adding alpacas to our backyard homestead, we've wondered about how they'll get along with our other animals - specifically our chickens. Can alpacas live with...
While I love eating fresh eggs, sometimes you get an egg that just smells fishy. And then it tastes weird and fishy, too. So why do some chicken eggs smell fishy? And what can we do to prevent...
