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Choosing the Right Chicken Breed: A Guide for Beginners Choosing the right chicken breed is a decision that will have a big impact on your flock’s success By considering your primary purpose (eggs, meat, or both), your local climate, the amount of space available, and the chickens' temperament, you can make a well-informed choice that will set you up for a productive and enjoyable chicken-raising
How To Raise Chickens When buying or building a coop, make sure it's big enough for them (and any future additions) A good rule of thumb for space requirements is approximately 3–4 square feet per chicken inside the coop and 10 sq ft per chicken for the outside run Check out this great guide on how much room do chickens need? Chicken Coop:
Just a Chicken Coop | BackYard Chickens - Learn How to Raise Chickens There's a time skip where I admittedly forgot to take photos, but we finished the siding and painted the coop, pre-painted the boards for the run, and then erected the run and added the hardware cloth We used pier blocks as the base for the posts, which got away from us and ended up being 4x4's Not very "just a chicken coop", but it IS very
What Is The Life Expectancy of Chickens? Chicken life expectancy, health, and other genetic traits received very little attention Chickens were simply chickens In the 19th century, people started gathering chickens and experimenting with their genes to see if they could better meet human needs and expectations
Should you wash eggs? The pros and cons - BackYard Chickens If you've ever seen a chicken lay an egg, you may notice it looks shiny and wet That shiny substance would be the bloom It dries in just a few seconds of the egg being laid The bloom acts as natural protection against bacteria entering the egg This helps keep the eggs edible for a longer period of time
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Coccidiosis How To Treat It - BackYard Chickens Coccidia are a microscopic parasitic organism that infect poultry when ingested by the chicken The parasites found in the ground or bird feces attaches itself to the lining in the gut, multiplies and becomes an oocyst feeding in the digestive tract which will make it bleed