Chickens are what most people think about when they start considering urban homesteading. There’s a good reason for that, chickens can be an easy livestock to start raising, and they don’t take a lot of space. Keeping chickens is a quick way to start producing all the eggs your family will need. Chickens can also be raised just part time for meat, or even as dual purpose birds!
They do have a little bit of learning curve, and there are things you can do to help your chickens have a happy life. If you are thinking about getting chickens, but aren’t sure if they are right for you, please download my free e-guide Baby Steps To Backyard Chickens.
Baby Steps To Backyard Chickens comes with a free companion, a printable checklist to help you get ready for chickens. Sign up for your downloadable checklist right here:
If you are sure you want to start keeping chickens, or if you already have chickens, feel free to look through the available resources below!
Everything You Wanted To Know About Chicken Eggs
The whoooooole point of raising chickens is for the awesome chicken eggs. Home grown chicken eggs are more colorful and ...
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Deworming Chickens: Do You Need To Worry About It?
Most chickens have some worms, but it isn't a problem until the chicken becomes overwhelmed with too many. Then it ...
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Be Ruthless With Chicken Mites And Obnoxious Bugs
Eww! My chicken's feathers are dirty in the back. These feathers are broken, but it's not time for a molt ...
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How Do You Know If You Have A Sick Chicken?
If you have kept chickens for any length of time you may find yourself wondering, how do I know if ...
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Introducing New Chickens Without Causing a Bloodbath
Thinking about adding more chickens to your backyard flock? Make sure you know how to properly integrate new birds into ...
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How Many Chickens Do I Need In A Successful Flock?
You are standing in the feed store starting at all the adorable fluffy chicks, wondering how many you should bring ...
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3 Excellent Places To Buy Chicks For A Healthy Flock
It's chick season! If you want to start your flock with chicks, or maybe add to an existing one, now ...
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New To Raising Chicks? Give Them The Best Care.
It didn't take long after walking into the feed store just to look at the chicks before I fell in love ...
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3 Reasons Why You Need Chickens
You need chickens. You really do. Why? Because chickens are awesome. Why are they awesome? They eat bugs, lay eggs, ...
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Can You Raise Meat Chickens In The City To Be More Self-Reliant?
We had laying hens for a bit before I wondered if it was possible to raise meat chickens and be more ...
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3 Rare Chicken Breeds You Need To Raise
Keeping a backyard flock means you can be a vital part of protecting heritage and rare chicken breeds. (There ...
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How To Clean Your Chicken Coop The Right Way
You may think how to clean your chicken coop is pretty self explanatory. Well it is, sort of. But the ...
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55 Best Chicken Coops for Practical People
One of the first things you need if you are thinking about getting chickens is some kind of housing for ...
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Pastured Meat Chickens In The City
Raising meat chickens in the city can be a quick and easy way to provide some meat for yourself even ...
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How To Make An Automatic Chicken Waterer
Making an automatic chicken waterer has been on my to do list for an embarrassingly long time. For some reason ...
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Chickens Take Dust Baths (But It Looks Like A Frenzy)!
The first time I saw my chickens laying on the ground in little fluffy chicken heaps my heart skipped a ...
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Should You Put Your Compost Bin in the Chicken Run?
Want to know a secret? It will improve the quality of your compost, speed up composting time, and aerate your ...
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Predator Proof Chicken Coops: A Simple Way To Protect Your Flock
There's nothing more devastating than waking up to chicken carnage. Chickens are so wonderful, sometimes it seems like every creature ...
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Are Your Chickens Molting? Here’s What You Need To Know
It looked like chicken carnage in the coop. There were feathers everywhere, and my heart sunk. I quickly did head ...
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Will Raising Meat Chickens Save Money?
As I forked over $15 for small organic chicken at the grocery store a few years ago I had this ...
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Chicken Hot Topics Book Review
Getting chickens seems like a simple enough proposition. Give them a place to live, some food and water and bam! ...
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15 Chicken Keeping Mistakes to Avoid
In general chickens are pretty easy. Even if you have no experience taking care of an animal a little reading ...
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Can You Have a Dog AND Chickens?
Can you have a dog AND chickens? Will the dog eat the chickens? Can they be trained to protect your ...
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Trimming Flight Feathers on Your Chickens
The other night the kids and I were sitting at the table having a bedtime snack when all of the ...
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Winter Chicken Care
We usually have mild winters here in Portland, Oregon, but this year we had a huge snow storm and I ...
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How To Make Your Own Animal Feeds
Once you've had chickens for a while you may want to experiment with making your own animal feeds. Making your ...
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DIY Chick Brooder Box
We've raised four different batches of chicks and this is the year I've made an official chick brooder box. I ...
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Why I Free Range My Chickens
One of my favorite part of keeping hens is watching them through out the day as they do their chicken ...
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Fodder Feeding: How To Get Healthy Livestock AND Save Money
Fodder feeding sprouted grains to your backyard livestock is a great way to decrease feed costs while giving your chickens, ...
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Here’s Why You Should Absolutely Think About Coturnix Quail
Living in the city or on a smaller property means that keeping a breeding flock of chickens is difficult. Often ...
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DIY Nest Box for Rabbits or Chickens
I want rabbits. Edward does not. So I built nesting boxes for rabbits. Just in case we need them. Just ...
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Are Heritage Meat Chicken Breeds The Best?
We had the first of our first heritage meat chickens for dinner this week. He was yummy, very chicken-y, but ...
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Be prepared for your first flock
With a step by step checklist to walk you through.