Articles by GardeNerd

Chicken Resistant Plants Gardening with chickens can be a pleasure as well as frustration and challenge. Here is a list of plants from my garden (USDA zone 9 - 10/ Sunset zone 22) that I have had success with my chickens leaving alone. For a dramatically different climate, consider looking...

Brooding Our Little Flock My family and I are backyard chicken keepers that can only have a few hens at time because we live in a big city with lots of restrictions on keeping poultry. We do not plan to be hatching chicks regularly, so we needed something cheap and easy. I looked around for...

My 5 minute Homemade Chicken Feeder Made from recycled and re-purposed items If you have looked at the other BYC pages or my blog, you will see that I am big into reusing stuff I have around the house or garage or anything I can recycle whenever it is practical. This is my chicken feeder...

Fullerton California Chicken Ordinance Are Chickens Allowed in this location Yes Max Chickens Allowed unspecified Roosters Allowed No Permit Required No Coop Restrictions set back 30 feet from a house on an adjacent property City/Organization Contact name Fullerton City Hall 303 W...

Garden Grove California Chicken Ordinance Are Chickens Allowed in this location Yes Max Chickens Allowed 4 Roosters Allowed No Permit Required No Coop Restrictions Minimum setback of twenty five feet from all adjacent dwelling units and property lines City/Organization Contact name...

Hawaiian Gardens California Chicken Ordinance Are Chickens Allowed in this location No Max Chickens Allowed Roosters Allowed No Permit Required No Coop Restrictions no chickens allowed. City/Organization Contact name Additional Information 18.90.040 Animal keeping and household...

Huntington Beach California Chicken Ordinance Are Chickens Allowed in this location Yes Max Chickens Allowed 6 Roosters Allowed No Permit Required Yes; $215 Fee Coop Restrictions 25 feet from any dwelling house or structure used as a dwelling, church, school, hospital, or place where...

Gardening with Backyard Chickens Our Small Chicken Coop for 4 chickens (The Hen House that doubles as a Garden Potting Table) We live in a large urban city in Los Angeles County about 4 miles from the ocean in Southern California. I love to garden and I incorporated the design of the...

Me and My Little Garden I am a homemaker, artist, school and church volunteer, scout troop leader, and complete garden "nerd." I love gardening and any kind of edible landscaping. Southern California has the ideal climate to do it year round. I have a blog with my chickens, garden projects...

Having a nice yard and garden as well as eating fresh homegrown produce is something many of us enjoy, including most backyard chickens. When I first started keeping chickens, I didn't realize how much damage they could do. After trial and error and a bit of advice from other gardeners with...

Recycled Rabbit Hutch Chicken Tractor When it was used as a brooder it had six chicks in it. If it was for a fulltime coop, it would hold only two bantams comfortably. Pictured here are my Leghorn hybrid and my Barred Rock for chicken scale. However, my chickens a regular coop, seen...

Chicken Proofing My Garden and Yard The chickens get access to the majority of my backyard for free ranging, but now a days you would not think it looking at the yard. The first season with chickens, the yard didn’t look as good as it used to. There was poop on the concrete, plants uprooted...

Hatching Grocery Store Fertile Eggs (My son's 5th Grade Science Project, January 2009) Trader Joe's Chicks Joey, our Trader Joe's Chicken We ordered chicks from a hatchery. But my 8 year old daughter wanted them from eggs to get to see chicks hatch. We live in the city and no one...

Feed Stores that keep Organic Poultry Feed in stock Links to Recipes to mix your own feed Mills and Suppliers Scroll down for all the listings of Retailers and Suppliers Once you have decided feeding your chickens organically is important to you, finding feed can be a challenge. I compiled...