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Taming The Flock: How To Be Your Chickens' Favorite Human🐓❤Thanks for writing this article! I enjoyed reading it! Much of the info for sure works as we have hatched batches of chicks before and most grew...- LoveMyPeepers
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Molting: All You Need To Know
- BYC Project Manager
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What is molting and what happens during it? In late summer/early fall, your coop is full of feathers, and your birds are half-naked. First, if... -
Why Join Back Yard Chickens? The Benefits Of Being A BYC Member
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A Grade Eh Canadian Woods Coop
- MiaS
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I had thought about getting some backyard chickens for my acreage a few years ago and then for whatever reason decided that I didn't want the... -
Aart's Hoop Coop / Chicken Tractor
- aart
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Aart's Hoop Coop / Chicken Tractor I've always been intrigued by the livestock panels as a structural material for a coop, and love the curved... -
Frostbite: What to Know About Injury, Care and Recovery
- Allsfairinloveandbugs
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Each year numerous frostbite threads appear on BYC where individuals seek information and advice. In most cases the frostbite is to the comb, the... -
What a Chicken's Comb Can Indicate
- Mountain Peeps
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What a Chicken’s Comb Can Indicate The comb, or the red crown atop a chicken’s head, can indicate many things. But before we look at these... -
Deep Litter Method - The Easiest Way To Deal With Chicken Litter
- Dawn419
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The Deep Litter Method DLM is basically a method in which you allow your coop litter to build up over a period of time. As the chicken manure and... -
Using Sand In Your Chicken Coop
- DawnSuiter
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Using Sand as a floor covering in my coops has been one of the BEST decisions I have made in terms of how to properly care for my chickens... -
Does Chicken Keeping Ever Get Boring?
- Mountain Peeps
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Does Chicken Keeping Ever Get Boring? Can or does chicken raising ever get dull? I’ve been at this chicken keeping business for years now. I... -
Diy hobbit house chicken coop
- chickencheeper
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In this article I will be going through the steps to building our hobbit house chicken coop. First we laid down the concrete footers and put the... -
Difference between Easter Eggers and Ameraucanas! With Review. (Optional)
- EmmaRainboe
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How To Use a Chicken Harness
- cluckmecoop7
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Learn how to use your chicken harness! Updated: Sadly, Kiwi the Buff Orpington has since passed away. :( I know most people don't own a... -
Top 50 Herbs for Your Chickens
- BYC Project Manager
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Herbs can provide a lot of health benefits to your flock of backyard chickens. Furthermore, they can save you money, keep your coop clean and... -
Ms Biddy's Cattle Panel Hoop Coop
- Ms Biddy
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Our cattle panel coop was inspired by multiple designs, including several here on BYC. Thank you to everyone who has shared their photos and... -
Oxytocin as a bonding agent between us and our chickens
- azygous
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What if there was a magic potion to get our chickens to love us? Perhaps there is. It’s called mesotocin, the bird version of oxytocin, the... -
My Mid Life Crisis Coop
- todtrac
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My Mid-Life Crisis Coop My wife says that most men going through a mid-life crisis get themselves either a new car or a mistress -- but lucky... -
How To Fix A Muddy Run Chicken Coop
- patandchickens
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Pat's Big Ol' Mud Page: How to Fix A Muddy Run When chickens spend a bunch of time in one area, a common consequence is bare dirt, which in wet... -
10 Joys of Keeping Backyard Chickens.
- Kuntry Klucker
- 12 min read
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I’m almost about 10 years deep into my backyard chicken hobby and have loved it every step of the way. From ordering chicks, getting the coops set...