How to Check Chickens for Mites and Lice 🐔🔍
17 mins
Introduction Your chicken doesn’t need to be visibly sick to have an external parasite problem. Mites and…
17 mins
Corid and Chickens: What Beginners Should Know Before Using Amprolium 🐔💊
17 mins
Introduction If you keep backyard chickens long enough, you will eventually hear about Corid. Corid is a…
13 Quail in One Cage? The Truth About Space Needs
12 mins
The Truth About Space Needs: Why 13 Quail in One Cage Is a Recipe for Disaster You’ve…
Buying Your First Chickens: 10 Questions to Ask Before Choosing Chicks, Pullets, or Hens
15 mins
Buying your first chickens can feel like the easy part of starting a backyard flock. You find…
The Beginner Chicken Decision Tree: Should You Buy Chicks, Pullets, or Hens?
16 mins
Starting a backyard chicken flock is exciting, but choosing your first birds can be surprisingly confusing. Should…
How Much Does It Cost to Raise Chicks vs. Buy Pullets? A Beginner’s Budget
16 mins
If you are thinking about starting a backyard chicken flock, the first price you see may not…
Don’t Want a Brooder? Why Started Pullets May Be the Easiest Choice
14 mins
For many first-time chicken keepers, the idea of raising baby chicks sounds exciting—until they learn what the…
Chicks vs. Pullets vs. Hens: Which Is Best for First-Time Chicken Keepers?
14 mins
Starting a backyard chicken flock sounds simple: buy a few chickens, put them in a coop, and…
Coturnix Quail Cage Setup: Free DIY Hack for Happy Birds
14 mins
You just found an old rabbit hutch on the curb. Or maybe a friend’s dusty bird cage…
Fairy Egg vs Pullet Egg: How to Tell What Your New Hen Actually Laid
17 mins
You walk into the coop, check the nesting box, and discover an egg that looks almost comically…
Why Is My Chicken Egg Flat on One Side? Slab-Sided Eggs Explained
17 mins
Finding an egg flat on one side can be surprising because it may look as though somebody…
Why Does My Chicken Egg Have Bumps? Calcium Deposits, Rough Shells, and When to Worry
13 mins
Finding a bumpy chicken egg in the nest box can be unsettling, especially when yesterday’s eggs looked…
From Chicks to Eggs: A Year in the Life of a Quail Keeper
16 mins
When I first decided to keep quail, I thought it would be a small, manageable addition to…
Three Soft-Shell Eggs in Three Days: When Is It More Than a Random Egg Glitch?
16 mins
Finding one soft-shelled egg in the nest can be strange, but many chicken keepers simply make a…
Watery Egg Whites and Thin Shells: Are These Two Egg Problems Actually Connected?
18 mins
Crack a backyard egg into a skillet and you normally expect the white to have some body,…
Why Is One Hen Laying Wrinkled Eggs? A 5-Step Diagnostic Guide
18 mins
Finding one strange egg in the nest box can make a backyard chicken keeper immediately wonder whether…
🐥 How to Reduce Coccidiosis Risk in a Backyard Chicken Brooder
21 mins
Introduction Coccidiosis is one of those chicken-health problems that can make new keepers nervous because the parasite…
🐥 Bloody Poop in Chicks: Coccidiosis or Something Else?
21 mins
Few things make a new chicken keeper panic faster than seeing red in a chick’s droppings. The…
🐥 How to Recognize Coccidiosis in Chicks Without Guessing
20 mins
Coccidiosis is one of those chicken-health problems that every chick keeper should understand. The challenge is that…
🐔 Coccidiosis in Chickens: Early Signs Beginners Should Recogniz
19 mins
Coccidiosis is one of those chicken health problems that beginners should learn to recognize early. It is…