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Useful and money-saving tips from our audience
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Finding the most efficient way to care for chickens often comes from ideas from other poultry owners. These tips from our audience might come in...
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Consider it free nutrients for the garden.
Chicken owners often use wood shavings, straw, or sawdust as bedding in the coop to keep the birds dry. When cleaning out chicken coops, an option is to toss the litter onto the compost pile....
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The perks of raising poultry go beyond meat and eggs. If you build a chicken tractor, you'll have mobile pest controllers and fertilizers.
Radio interview source: Rich McGinnis, Co-Owner, DIY Chicken Coops
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We had a coop to put our chickens in at night, but let...
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Raising chickens requires a coop and creativity. Here are a few of your favorite chick inns.
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Summer can be a dangerous time for chickens, and it's up to you to keep them cool.
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Whether your baby chicks arrive in the mail or are hatched in an incubator, here are some important first steps to ensure their safety and well-being.
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Some are fancy and some are recycled, but all of these chicken coops built by our readers are home to some pretty lucky chickens!
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When raising chickens, one of the most important decisions a backyard hobbyist must make -- besides the choice to actually raise chickens, of course -- is how the chickens will be housed. Most...
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Several years ago, Coleen McMurphy decided she wanted to raise chickens on her Clearwater, Kansas, acreage. When she couldn't buy the type of coop she really wanted, she and her sister, Keala...
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Coleen had always dreamed of having her own flock. When she and her sister came across chicks for sale, they just had to buy them. There was only one problem: Coleen didn't have a coop. Finding...
Sisters Keala Timko and Coleen McMurphy had been exchanging chicken-related items for some time. Chicken books passed between the two, and Keala even gave Coleen chick feeders for her birthday. The...