Chicken keeping can be easy if you make it so. There are many things that can make your chicken keeping easier about which many novice chicken keepers are not aware of. Making your chicken keeping simpler can save you a lot of time, money and effort. This is why we at the typesofchicken.com team decided to share with our readers some of the Hacks For Easier Chicken Keeping with the hope that they will make your chicken keeping simpler as much as it did for us.
Chicken Keeping
Raising Chickens
The Most Chicken Friendly Animals!
Keeping chickens in your backyard has been only the beginning for some chicken keepers.
The process of chicken keeping has inspired many people to try keeping other animals and that is a fact. Chickens are friendly, smart, and highly productive animals, but they are also gentle and almost always considered the prey and not the predator.
This is why every chicken keeper that wants to keep his chickens alive needs to be careful about what kind of animals they keep alongside their chickens. There are, however, animals that can be tamed and trained to be friends with your chickens and can play with them.
How To Start Raising Friendly Chickens
Every chicken keeper knows the feeling when a friend comes to their house and wants to pet the chickens and you have to tell them that it is not a good idea to pet that particular chicken due to their pecking human’s habit.
It is kind of dumb when you have to tell that sort of thing to a friend and what we at the typesofchicken.com team want to do for this article is take away that awkward feeling from our readers. How to start raising friendlier chickens you ask?
You have to start as early as when they are only 3 days old.
Shannon Stansberry has been engaged in the business of raising chickens for more than 12 years. In 2016, she accomplished the Agriculture & Natural Resources program at Mt. San Antonio College. At present, she tends to more than 80 chickens on her 4-hectare farm. Shannon regularly shares her insights and experience on how to raise healthy and contented chickens on the platform Typesofchickens.com
Do You Have An Egg Eater In Your Flock? Here`s How To Stop Them!
Egg eating chickens are more than common in every chicken keepers career.
Out of curiosity or hunger, a hen can start eating eggs that she lays.
For some novice chicken keeper, the sight of a hen eating her own egg can be disgusting.
Luckily, we at the typesofchicken.com team have found a number of methods that can break the habit of egg eating in your chickens and we focused this article on providing our readers with them.
Should You Keep A Rooster In Your Flock?
It is not easy being a chicken keeper and being employed at the same time. Doing both of these things can take most of a persons free time and if one of them gets harder to do it may be a problem. <!–more–>Roosters in your flock can make chicken keeping both harder and easier for … Read more
6 Things Everyone Should Know About Chickens!
When I started raising my first flock of chickens, I would sometimes start a conversation with something like, “So sorry I’m late! I had to chase a chicken.” It was always true, of course, but it was a great conversation starter about my favorite hobby.
Do NOT Make These Mistakes When Keeping Chickens During The Winter!
Every chicken keeper makes mistakes from time to time, we don`t judge.
What we want to do is help our readers be aware of some of those mistakes and perhaps that will prevent them from making them.
For today`s article, we wanted to focus on mistakes that chicken keepers tend to make while keeping their chickens during the winter.
Chicken keepers can make these mistakes due to misinformation or as we all sometimes do forget about some of their daily chores concerning the well-being of our chickens during the winter.
Chicken Behavior – What Should You Expect?
In order to properly execute the process of chicken keeping every chicken keeper should know what kind of behavior he or she should expect from chickens. That will help them recognize a problem in the flock or just to stay calm and not to panic when the behavior of their chickens is not the same as it was before.
How To Prevent Predators From Harming Your Chickens
Predators are a problem to every chicken keeper out there. There are many different kinds of predators that can harm and kill your chickens, but we have discussed that already in one of our previous articles. Few days ago we wrote an article about how to prevent your chickens from getting killed by cats and dogs and that motivated some of our readers to ask for an article on how to make their chicken coop predator proof – we at the typesofchicken.com team are happy to oblige.
How To Handle An Aggressive Rooster!
Don’t know what to do with an aggressive rooster? Roosters are born with their sense of duty towards the flock they belong in. We have discussed the reasons why are some roosters aggressive such as genetics, hormones, and sense of authority. We have received a lot of e-mail concerning this particular questions. We would like … Read more
