BackYard Chickens

Interested to see who keeps chickens for what. Mine are pets. Can't wait to see what everybody says!

I have been buying hatching eggs online, because I live in the middle of no where with hardly any good breeders/hatcheries around.. I fully understand that hatching shipped eggs is a gamble but dang.. I have been having horrible luck. The first two hatches I bought local.. Set 4 quail eggs only 1 hatched. (Which was an incubator malfunction so I returned it.) Set 30 guinea fowl and 5 peafowl, hatched 15 guinea and 1 peafowl.. Then with the shipped eggs.. The post office decided to throw my...

Pic by @bgchicken Many of us found that building vs buying a chicken coop can be a better option for economic and other reasons. And with summer in full swing (for most of us anyway!) and spring chickens moving outside, it's the time of the year when many new chicken owners start thinking "coop". So this week I'd like to hear you all's thoughts own coop building. For starters: - Do's and don'ts - What did you wish you did differently, or knew, when you built your coop? - What materials...