Keeping chickens on your homestead can be an important step in becoming more self sufficient and sustainable. A backyard flock can easily keep a family in eggs all year with enough to spare for ...

Use PVC pipe and trickle irrigation tubing to provide fresh water to your hens, even when you're out of town Watering chickens is a dilemma if the owner wants to go out of town for a few days, so I ...

After 10 years of keeping chickens, I have developed a mobile, self-cleaning, and predator-proof chicken coop that allows them to thrive while also being productive. This coop helps protect the ...

Chickens can be useful critters to have on an urban homestead, seeing as how they're almost like little egg-making machines that run on food scraps. OK, that's a bit of a stretch, as keeping chickens ...