If you’re in the process of building or designing your chicken coop, you may have stumbled across this article because you’re wondering just how big should a chicken nest box be? The answer is actually quite simple. It doesn’t matter! Ok, we should probably clarify this a little bit. Obviously if you build nest …
Every chicken owner knows how important it is to keep your chicken coop well lit and ventilated. But what if you can accomplish this while also reducing your carbon footprint? You can with solar panels. While, for beginners, buying solar panels and figuring out if one will work for your farm can be difficult, …
For any chicken owner, keeping your chickens healthy is a number one priority. It is the key to having a thriving chicken farm. However, many farmers ponder the same question when cleaning their chicken coop: “can cleaning a chicken coop make you sick?” The short answer if yes, but it’s not all that common …
Want to know if you’re eating healthy chicken meat? Us too. The best way to know what your chicken meat has been fed or how it’s been cared for is to find a chicken farmer in your area you trust, or simply raise your own! We discuss some of the best meat chicken breeds …
If you’ve been curious about raising your own meat birds but aren’t sure how, you’re not alone. Raising meat chickens for beginners can be scary if you haven’t done it before! We break down the process in this article to, hopefully, alleviate some of those fears. Chicken meat purchased from the grocery store may …
We all want to protect our chickens from predators and from ‘flyin the coop.’ This means we need to choose the best wire mesh for a chicken run. Similar to how there are countless amounts of chicken breeds, there are plenty of different wire meshes to use. You also have to keep factors like …
If you’re on the fence on whether to build or buy a chicken coop, you’re not alone. The amount of information out there is overwhelming! In this article we’ll take a look at all the angles of both building and buying a chicken coop to hopefully provide a lot more clarity on the dilemma. …