Articles by Red Barn Farms

Our Handmade Wooden Chicken Grit / Feeder Multi - purpose feeder! May be used for feed, grit or even oyster shell. This project was started due do the fact we have standard and bantam sized chickens and...

This is the time of year when your chickens will need more special attention. Chickens have a much higher body temperature than you or I and will generally feel that rise in heat faster then we will. The average body temperature for a chicken normally will run at 102-103 degrees F. Their...

We want to take this time to share a few of our family favorite recipes. These recipes have been handed down from generation to generation. Some are Friday night hurry and rush favorites all the way to Thanksgiving Day dishes. We hope you want to try a few of the recipes we are presenting...

After being a member of BackYard Chickens for the past six months and reading thread after thread in all the various topics and subjects until I've needed toothpicks to hold my eye lids open and endless amounts of coffee plus hundreds of other web sites on the subject of poultry I've decided to...

Items I'd like to swap for hatching eggs and or young chicks. (live chicks preferred since my incubator seems to be on the fritz) If you see anything you like get with me and lets swap. I am looking for: Heritage Heavy Breed hatching eggs (and lives) including Blk Copper Marans, Cochin's...

The Campine chicken originated in northern Belgium and is an old European egg layer chicken breed. In addition to producing white shelled eggs, they were bred for egg production. Campine chickens are identical to the Belgian Braekel in all ways except for their size. It lays a fair number of...

Red Barn Farms First Flock It all started Easter weekend. We were in our local town looking for an Easter present. Most people buy flowers for their mothers on Easter but my mom loves collecting those pretty little bird houses and has them sitting all around her kitchen. Believe me, they...

My chickens live in their 'hen house' and go into the run area normally only in the early morning hours then again at dusk about an hour before it's roost time. Plus, they free range in the afternoon most evenings. I used a 70% sun blocking cover (from TSC) for the roof which allow plenty of...

My chickens free range in the late afternoon and they will take a break and fly up and rest on the new roost. I had several wild grapevines growing and it was either cut them down or use them to my best advantage. So I came up with this idea. The roost sits next to a giant tree and now...

We started raising chickens the week of Easter 2012 and have never looked back! We were in our local farm supply store looking around when we heard some cute little chirping sounds coming from the center of the store. They had four metal water troughs set up and each held about 100 baby...