Looking for a chicken that will tolerate the hot summer heat, lay lots of big eggs, and has a fun personality? The White Leghorn chicken may be the breed for you. Check out this spotlight on the white leghorn chicken and learn about some of its most lovable characteristics: White is separate from the rest Although there [...] . . . → Read More: Spotlight on White Leghorn Chickens
By Andrew Penn, on July 15th, 2011  3 commentsBy Andrew Penn, on June 20th, 2011 6 commentsLike most other animals, chickens are subject to intestinal worms. Worms are parasites that, upon entering your chickens’ body, will live in their intestines, leach nutrients from your chickens, and shed eggs in your chickens’ feces. Among the most common worms your chickens can harbor are roundworms, tapeworms, and hairworms. Intestinal worms are extremely contagious [...] . . . → Read More: How to Keep Intestinal Worms Under Control By Andrew Penn, on June 20th, 2011 1 commentAny homesteader will tell you that introducing new chicks to your flock is a stressful experience, especially if you are doing it for the first time. Chickens live in a flock according to a pecking order: the rooster (if there is one) or hen with the most dominant personality presides at the top of the [...] . . . → Read More: Introducing Chicks to Your Flock By Andrew Penn, on March 2nd, 2011 1 comment Before you set out to find chicken coops for sale, you need to understand that to a large extent, your chickens’ happiness and egg production will depend on the coop that you get them. A chicken coop, of course, is a home for chickens, and is the place that nearly all chickens spend – at least [...] . . . → Read More: Chicken Coops for Sale – 3 Places to Find The Perfect Place to Keep Your Chickens Cooped Up! By Andrew Penn, on February 28th, 2011 4 commentsThere’s a lot to be said about plastic…especially when it comes to a plastic chicken coop. It’s easy to clean, it’s light, it’s colorful. The only commercially available plastic chicken coop, The Omlet Eglu (sic), has been selling from a manufacturer in the United Kingdom over these last years. But before that came along, plastic has been [...] . . . → Read More: The Plastic Chicken Coop – The Pros & Cons of Housing Your Chickens in Plastic Coops By Andrew Penn, on February 25th, 2011 5 commentsFrom chicken coop nesting boxes comes one of nature’s perfect foods – the egg. Well, maybe. Store-bought eggs are literally pale by comparison to home-grown eggs. When a true free-range egg is cracked in a bowl next to a factory farm egg, the difference is astounding. The home-grown egg will have a yolk the color [...] . . . → Read More: Chicken Coop Nesting Boxes – 5 Tips to Building the Perfect Space for Your Chickens to Lay Eggs! By Andrew Penn, on February 22nd, 2011 4 commentsWhether you’re going to buy or build a wooden chicken coop, there’s one major warning you need to keep in mind: The wood for the coop should not be of the treated variety that is supposed to stave off moisture or rot. Arsenic compounds are used in the treatment process and those will poison your birds [...] . . . → Read More: The Wooden Chicken Coop – Don’t Make This 1 Huge Mistake When Using a Wooden Coop By Andrew Penn, on February 20th, 2011 3 commentsThere are a number of aspects that you must keep in mind when looking for chicken houses for sale. Below is a list of the 7 super-duper important ones to consider when shopping for a coop. Space – Every bird should have three square feet of area in the coop itself, and ten square feet of [...] . . . → Read More: Chicken Houses for Sale – 7 Tips to Finding the Perfect Coop For You By Andrew Penn, on February 17th, 2011 9 commentsAre you trying to decide whether or not you need a large chicken coop? Odds are for you that BIGGER will be BETTER! Here are two really important things to know about chickens as it relates to chicken coop size: 1. Chickens are more addictive than M&Ms. Believe me, you will end up with more chickens [...] . . . → Read More: Large Chicken Coop – Why Size Matters When It Comes to Cooping Your Chickens Up By Andrew Penn, on February 15th, 2011 7 commentsIf you can drive a nail into wood without bending it (usually) and if you can saw a straight line (that’s often relative), you can probably pull off a hen-housing project using chicken coop building plans. And, if you punch “chicken coop building plans” into your web browser, you’ll see that there are a lot [...] . . . → Read More: Chicken Coop Building Plans – 5 Tips to Consider Before Building A Coop for Your Chickens | |
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