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4 Tips to Boost your Chickens' Immune System

Follow these tips to boost your chicken's immune system, keep your flock healthy, and prevent illness. Chickens are often susceptible...

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Rhode Island Red Chicken: The Ultimate Guide

Welcome to our journey into the fascinating world of Rhode Island Red chickens, a breed that has earned its place...

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White Crested Black Polish Chicken Breed

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Polish Chicken Breed: The Complete Guide

In the realm of poultry, few breeds capture the imagination quite like the Polish chicken. With its regal crest of...

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Olive Oil Chicken Feed: 7 Health Benefits

Offering Olive Oil Chicken Feed to your flock can offer some important potential health benefits! From the lustrous sheen of...

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Speckled Sussex Chicken: The Complete Guide

The Speckled Sussex chicken boasts a delightful personality that has won the hearts of chicken enthusiasts worldwide. Join us as...

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Olive Egger Chicken Breed: The Ultimate Guide

The Olive Egger chicken breed, with their stunning plumage and unique egg colors, have taken the poultry world by storm....

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Safe Food for Chickens to Eat

Raising chickens is a fun and rewarding hobby, but it's also important to make sure that they are receiving a...

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Toxic food for chickens: 15 foods to avoid

Feeding chickens toxic food can harm their health and lead to various health problems, including illness, reduced egg production, and...

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4 Tips to Boost your Chickens' Immune System

Follow these tips to boost your chicken's immune system, keep your flock healthy, and prevent illness. Chickens are often susceptible...

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Rhode Island Red Chicken: The Ultimate Guide

Welcome to our journey into the fascinating world of Rhode Island Red chickens, a breed that has earned its place...

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Polish Chicken Breed: The Complete Guide

In the realm of poultry, few breeds capture the imagination quite like the Polish chicken. With its regal crest of...

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Olive Oil Chicken Feed: 7 Health Benefits

Offering Olive Oil Chicken Feed to your flock can offer some important potential health benefits! From the lustrous sheen of...

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Speckled Sussex Chicken: The Complete Guide

The Speckled Sussex chicken boasts a delightful personality that has won the hearts of chicken enthusiasts worldwide. Join us as...

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backyard breeds

Olive Egger Chicken Breed: The Ultimate Guide

The Olive Egger chicken breed, with their stunning plumage and unique egg colors, have taken the poultry world by storm....

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Safe Food for Chickens to Eat

Raising chickens is a fun and rewarding hobby, but it's also important to make sure that they are receiving a...

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Toxic food for chickens: 15 foods to avoid

Feeding chickens toxic food can harm their health and lead to various health problems, including illness, reduced egg production, and...

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Welsummer Chicken Breed: The Complete Guide

The Welsummer chicken breed is distinguished by its beautiful brown and red feathers. It is also renowned for its exceptionally...

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Plymouth Rock Chicken: The Ultimate Guide

The Plymouth Rock chicken breed is well-known for its hardiness, heat and cold tolerance, and friendly personality. They also lay...

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Wyandotte Chicken Breed: The Ultimate Guide

The Wyandotte chicken breed is a favorite among backyard flock owners for their dependable, egg-laying, easygoing nature and cold hardiness....

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Top 5 Chicken Coops for sale in 2022

My Pet Chicken offers the best selection of backyard chicken coops for sale at great prices! We have coops and...

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Backyard Chicken Care Calendar - A Year-Round C...

Our easy-to-follow year-round backyard chicken care calendar checklist will help you with everything related to your backyard chicken flock. Raising...

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Learn about the pros of ordering started chicken pullets

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Why Are More Backyard Chicken Keepers Choosing ...

Started Pullets are a great way to add to your backyard chicken flock. There are many benefits to ordering started...

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Chicken Dream Job-12 Best Reasons to Work at MPC

Have you, or has someone you know, been fantasizing about a chicken dream job? Do you want to leave your...

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Has the Avian Flu Outbreak Affected Your State?

A comprehensive guide to keeping yourself informed about the HPAI outbreak. The 2022-2024 avian flu outbreak in the United States has affected...

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Top Five Summer Treats for Chickens

During the season's heat, summer treats for chickens can provide mental stimulation, nutrition, and a cooling break. A cooling break?...

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Chicken Sitter Checklist

A complete guide to leaving your flock with a chicken sitter Your vacation is booked, and your luggage is packed....

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Tips for Planning Your Chicken Coops

Your chicks are on order and the brooder tub is all set up and ready for them. Now you just...

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Avian Influenza is here: 5 takeaways

You’ve heard about highly pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the news unless you’ve been hiding under a rock! Wondering what this...

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Cold weather chickens - 8 things NOT to do to i...

How to prepare your chickens for winter isn't especially intuitive. In fact, many people may take steps that can actually...

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A Guide to Building a Chicken First Aid Kit

Owning a chicken first aid kit for your flock is a must! Let's face it, no matter what level chicken...

These top 6 herbs are the best choice to grow near your chicken coop.

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Herbs for Chickens -Top 6 to Grow for your Flock

If you’re growing a garden, consider adding herbs for chickens. Their benefits are two-fold, because they’re good for your birds...

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Can baby chicks get too much chick grit?

One customer's story of too much chick grit.... Too much chick grit can be harmful to your newly delivered flock....

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Use First Saturday Lime for Chickens & Your Gar...

First Saturday Lime is great for the garden and chicken coop! One of my must-have supplies for backyard homesteading is...

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4 Rules of chicken keeping

So you want chickens? Here are the first 4 rule...

Does Coronavirus have you thinking about producing your own food? Sweet. But take a sec and think this through, please......

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How To Keep Chickens Warm in Winter: 7 Ways to ...

Honey, it's cold outside! Chickens can take the cold better you would think, and in most cases don't require heating...

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Chicken Run Ideas: Growing Luffa as a Simple Sh...

Whether it's sun, wind or rain, our flock has limited protection in their run. On the worst days, our chickens...

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Tragedy to Artistry: Appreciating Chicken Feat...

It was crisp and cool, with the pleasant smell of fall in the air, as I walked to my chicken...

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What happens when frostbite strikes

Last week, with the windchill, it was 19 below zero here in Connecticut. I secured our coop and tucked everyone...

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Chicken Vent Gleet: An Icky, Sticky Problem

Our My Pet Chicken Flock Care Specialists receive health-related questions from y'all almost daily. A common question is about what...

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Cats and Chickens Can Be Buddies......

Seriously, cats and chickens, seemingly mortal foes, can be good buddies! A bit over a year ago, my ten year...

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Chicken Coop Fire - Moving On After Tragedy

“Mr. Tim, your coop is on fire!” We ran outside to see the coop engulfed in flames...

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Small flock guidelines for FDA's new rules

If you keep chickens and haven't yet heard about the FDA's recent rules and standards changes please take a moment to read...

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Lash Egg: the grossest egg your hens will lay

While most of the eggs your hens will lay are going to be normal, to start off October on a...

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Farm insurance: 4 good reasons to get it

If you sell or give away your eggs, or have friends and neighbors over to visit your chickens -- and...

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4 things you can do to protect a rural flock

Chickens are so easy to raise that they fit almost anywhere. Many are in small suburban backyards where predator loads...

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5 tips for designing a custom chicken run

Has your chicken math exceeded your run space? Have you decided to add a run to an existing coop for...

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DIY PVC Chicken Feeder for Small Coops

We all hate wasted bird feed, all those little bits that spill out of hanging feeders onto the ground, or the...

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DIY No-Waste feeder!

I have an embarrassingly large number of chickens who eat quite a bit of food. (Let's not get into actual numbers of birds...

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Biosecurity: Difference between cleaning and sa...

Biosecurity for your flock means both cleaning AND sanitizing. But a lot of people don't necessarily realize there's a difference, or why...

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Salmonella, the CDC, and Handling Pet Chickens

We have always advised practicing good biosecurity with your birds. When you handle them, make sure to wash your hands---make...

Growing fodder for your chicken flock is easy!

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Growing Fodder for chickens

It’s that time of year when your luscious green grass is nowhere to be seen! Growing fodder for your chickens is...

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Are Chickens Vegetarian?

One of the weirdest things I see on the cartons of commercial eggs in stores is this: "Vegetarian-fed." Vegetarian chickens? Ha!...

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5 Ways To Teach Life Skills to Kids with a Flock

Not long ago I saw a post on Facebook about a child who had just gotten a website up and...

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Four Important Feather Foot Concerns

Feather foot chickens: there's just something about the magnificent feathered legs of breeds like cochins or silkies. Fancy feathered chickens...

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Top 10 ways to prepare the flock for winter

I like to prepare the flock for winter, and I like to do it early. I've always found being an...

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Owning a second chicken coop has many benefits to your flock.

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Top 3 reasons to have a second coop

Let's dive into the world of luxury for your chickens. While many see a second coop as an indulgence, it...

A molting chicken -Learn the top 3 ways to help your molting flock

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Help your Molting Flock - Top 3 Ways

Helping your flock through molting season is essential. Molting, or shedding old feathers to grow in the new, is triggered...

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Top Reasons to Raise Chicks in the Fall

Raising chicks in fall has some significant advantages, including better breed availability, larger eggs, and early spring egg production. Spring...

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