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Millions of people throughout North America enjoy raising chickens. The backyard hobby has gained popularity amongst both urban and suburban residents, with major media like the Vancouver Sun and the New York Times publishing in-depth articles on raising backyard chickens. Many …

We’ve had our egg laying chickens for about 8 months. It’s my first experience raising chickens and there has been a lot to learn.

Egg Laying Chickens for Beginners

When we first decided to raise chickens our coop was not yet constructed, but we went ahead and made arrangements to buy a half dozen pullets (young hens) from a nearby farm. Since our farm was not equipped with a space …

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Reasons for Raising Chickens

The most common reasons for raising chickens is for fun (e.g. hobby farms), fresh eggs, fresh poultry meat and for gardening purposes (e.g. chicken manure and fertilizer and weed/pest control).

The reason you’re raising chickens may …

…a delight–practical and charming. We’ve sold hundreds of copies….So glad it’s back in print. PAUL HANSEN & MARY GLEYSTEEN, EAGLE HARBOR BOOK CO., BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA I love this book–written in such a natural, endearing voice–makes me want to climb into a hammock in the middle of a green field, breathe in a farm and listen to the chickens cluck. ANNA QUINN, THE …

A basic guide to raising chickens organically where we will be discussing:

Housing for Chickens

What to Feed Chickens

How to Raise Chickens for Eggs

General Poultry Care

Raising organic poultry can be very satisfying, and you don’t have to live on a farm to be able to collect your own eggs every day. As long as your council allows the keeping of poultry, you can easily set up a …

Chickens have got to be the easiest, most forgiving, creatures for a small farm to manage. While any book you pick up on chickens would have you believe that they can suffer from any number of perfectly horrible parasites and problems, the fact is… there’s nothing to them. They’ll call the …

Keeping Chickens at Home – Getting started. ‘Keeping Chickens at Home’ is for anyone who simply wants to learn how to keep a few chickens in their back garden and just wants the basics explained to them in a simple to understand manner.

You don’t need acres of land to keep a few chickens. In fact I kept three very happily living only a mile from an UK city centre.

If you …

A recent query from keeping chickens newsletter subscriber Staci : “Thanks for the newsletter. I have enjoyed it very much. I did a little searching through it, but have not seen mention of ‘winter mashes’. A friends’ mother told me she remembers that her father used to feed his hens a mash of some sort to keep them laying through the winter. If you have any recipes for such a thing …

There are many reasons why more and more people are looking into raising chickens in their backyard. Some raise backyard chickens to increase the safety of their own food supply by avoiding the risk of large scale salmonella or E. Coli contaminations that seem to happen on a regular basis with chicken and eggs among other foods. Others prefer the higher nutritional content of grass-fed …

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The updated article includes even more information on the basics of feeding chickens.

One common question on our poultry message boards concerns feeding chickens. Many of our members also wonder about feeding geese and feeding ducks. For example, one member wrote:

“Should I feed my chickens feed …