If you’re like me, you constantly battle with your chickens as you try to get them to sleep in the coop. Mine constantly get out of the pen and sleep in the bushes next to the coop. So every night…
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How To Keep Backyard Chickens Safe From Predators
by Julie Helms • • 10 Comments
Chickens are extremely vulnerable to predation. In many cases they have been bred to be heavy to please our palates at the table and many of them are nearly flightless. They can literally become “sitting ducks!” The level of protection…
Wild Chickens and Hidden Eggs
by David Nichols • • 9 Comments
Now that my chickens are about seven months old they have completely settled into their surrounds. By settled in I mean they no longer stay in the pen and rarely use the coop. Every night I have to go out…
What’s Out of Place In These Pictures?
by David Nichols • • 1 Comment
One of the many things you learn when you raise chickens is that fences are more to keep other animals out of the chicken coop than to keep the chickens in. You have to keep in mind that chickens are…
Aruacana Chickens
by David Nichols • • 4 Comments
These are some pictures of my Araucana Chickens at six months old.
The Chicken’s First Day Out
by David Nichols • • 2 Comments
After a month being in the house inside the brooder box the little chickens were final ready to go out in their new home.
When the chickens get out it’s time for them to go out.
by David Nichols • • 2 Comments
As I’m raising my chicks in the brooder box I’m asked the question “How do you know when they are ready to go outside”? The answer I’ve always heard is that when their feathers are in and they are big…
Details for Alabama Chicken and Egg Festival
by David Nichols • • 1 Comment
Organizers of the Alabama Chicken and Egg Festival (ACEF) announced the eighth annual event will become a three day event in 2012. North Alabama’s wildly popular spring festival returns to Moulton, April 13-15, 2012 and with the additional day, new…
Creative Chicken Brooders
by David Nichols • • 1 Comment
When I got my six baby Araucanas I initially used a small box. Something to keep in mind though is that chickens grow very quickly (a week or two) and I soon had to get a bigger box. Some things…
Custom Chicken Coops – My Story
by David Nichols • • 13 Comments
I’ve wanted to get chickens for a while now and my wonderful wife got me six baby Araucana chicks for my birthday. So now I had to figure out a way to house them once they were grown, and not…
