Chicken Feeding

3 Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing a Chicken Feeder

3 Mistakes To Avoid When Choosing a Chicken Feeder

When it comes to raising chickens, providing them with the right type of feeder is essential for ensuring their nutritional needs are met. Choosing the wrong feeder can lead to wasted feed, frustration, and even potential health issues for your flock. To help you make the best decision, here are three common mistakes to avoid…

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10 points essentiels à prendre en compte avant d’élever des poules

L’élevage de poules peut être une expérience gratifiante et enrichissante. Non seulement elles fournissent des œufs frais et luttent contre les parasites, mais elles apportent aussi de la joie et de la compagnie dans votre jardin. Cependant, avant de vous lancer dans cette aventure, il est important de prendre en compte ces dix points clés…

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How To Stop A Chicken From Being Broody So They Get Back To Laying Eggs

Some chickens get broody every year, whilst some don’t at all, but it can start as soon as they’re old enough to lay (around 5 to 8 months old). A clucky hen will sit on her eggs for three weeks waiting for them to hatch, which means three weeks of no other laying. If you…

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The top 5 things to keep in mind when choosing an automatic chicken feeder

When choosing a new automatic chicken feeder, there are a few important points to consider. With plenty of options on the market you want to ensure you’re finding the ideal option to suit your feathered friends. #1: How many chickens will the automatic chicken feeder feed? Making sure all chickens are getting enough food in…

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How to Feed Your Chickens At Various Ages

Depending on the age of your flock, there may be specific ways you should be maximizing their feeding process. Raising chickens is a rewarding and fulfilling pastime to beat loneliness while sustaining your own food source in a cost-effective way. Although it is relatively simple to raise your own chickens, the feeding game can get…

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The Best Healthy Treats to Give Your Chickens

Keeping your chickens to a strict feeding schedule is important, but adding a few healthy treats here and there can be beneficial to your flock. Your chickens will spend most of their days either eating or nesting. There are times, however that they will get bored, and providing the rare treat to your flock can…

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5 Backyard Chores For Your Chickens

Chickens are actually hard workers! Here’s what they can do to help you on the farm. When most people think about the work chickens do on a farm, it’s usually their role in laying eggs to feed the farmer’s family – and, perhaps eventually, become a Sunday dinner to enjoy. In truth, chickens can do…

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Are My Hens Eating Their Own Eggs? Yes, They Might Be – And Here’s How to Stop It

We won’t call it how we see it, but yes, your chickens may choose to eat their own eggs. Here’s why and how to stop it.

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8 Mistakes You Might Be Making With Your Chickens

Keeping chickens, whether for eggs, meat or as pets is a fun and easy way to add a little happiness and sustenance to your life. There are some common mistakes you might be making, however.

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4 Ways to Keep Your Chickens Entertained

Keeping chickens takes more than setting up a coop and hoping for eggs. Boredom and loneliness are both real things when it comes to chickens. They love being busy and keeping entertained. If you let your chickens be free-range, you may think that allowing them access to your yard is entertainment enough. However, they will…

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