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When Raising Chickens – Beware of These Things!

When Raising Chickens - Beware of These Things

There are things that every chicken keeper needs to know in order to properly care for his/her chickens. We at the typesofchicken.com team decided to do an article on this subject in the form of When Raising Chickens – Beware of These Things!

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Top 5 Reasons Why Keeping Chickens Is Great For You!

Top 5 Reasons Why Keeping Chickens Is Great For You!

Keeping chickens is not simple – it takes a lot of your money, time and strength. But if you do it properly it will absolutely be worth your while. We have discussed previously on many issues concerning chicken keeping as a process, How To`s and whatnot but we haven’t scratched one of the most obvious question that helps people decide on chicken keeping. Why to keep chickens is the first question that needs to be answered on this subject and we at the typesofchicken.com team apologize for being late on the matter, but without any further ado here are the Top 5 Reasons Why Keeping Chickens Is Great For You.

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How To Maintain Your Waterer And Keep The Water Uncontaminated – 3 Tips

First of all, we would like to say that we are aware that the word “waterer” is not a correct word but it will do for this article and is commonly used between chicken keepers. Some time ago we at the typesofchicken.com team gave you an article on how to keep your chickens hydrated. But is keeping your chickens hydrated enough? If the water you give to your chickens is dirty, you increase the risk of them getting sick. Maintaining the water your chickens drink is an important part of their health. And it is also very easy once you get used to doing it. There are 3 easy tips on how to maintain your waterer and keep the water uncontaminated and we will be kind enough to show them to you in the form of an article.

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How to Bathe a Chicken Properly!

How to Bathe a Chicken

Well, this article has been on our minds for a long time and finally, we got around to doing it.

Hygiene is important for chickens because even though they have their feathers to protect their skin and are highly adaptable animals you can benefit a lot if you keep them clean. In this article, we at the typesofchicken.com team will explain to you in some details how to bathe your chickens in a simple and easy way.

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Natural Or Artificial Incubation – Which One Is For Your Eggs?

Natural Or Artificial Incubation

Well this has been the subject of many discussions for every chicken-keeping enthusiast novice or more experienced one. We at the typesofchicken.com team had a long discussion on natural or artificial incubation and which one is better and why. And because we really don’t like our readers disagreeing with us we decided to help you to decide for yourself by presenting you the good and the bad things concerning natural as well as artificial incubation. If you haven’t decided yet which one to choose this is the perfect article for you.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Chicken Coop – DIY Projects!

Improve Your Chicken Coop

We at the typesofchicken.com team are focusing on presenting you some DIY projects that you will find useful and easy to make.

Before doing this article we were having a long discussion about which one of these projects we should present you with today, and what we decided is that we can stuff them into one article. We agreed upon this decision because we believe that our readers deserve our best.

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5 Tips On How To Keep Your Eggs Fresh!!!

How To Keep Your Eggs Fresh

Since I started having my own flock of chickens, I was surprised from the number of eggs my chickens produced and I have never intended to sell any of them and I am not intending to do so ever.

So when the eggs started piling up I did a little research on how to keep my eggs fresh after having them for some time. I believe that many of our readers have similar problems so that is why I proposed to my friends at the typesofchicken.com team to do this article.

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How to Make Your Own Automatic Chicken Feeder – 6 Easy Steps!!!

Automatic Chicken Feeder

We at the typesofchicken.com team give our best to present to you some new ideas and stuff to add to your chicken coop. Until now we have given you a variety of articles with instructions about how to make toys for your chickens, waterer and such. Many of our readers have complained that they have problems with feces getting in their chicken feeder because their feeder is on the ground in the coop. So, here is an article on how to make your own automatic chicken feeder that removes that problem and is cheap and easy to make.

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How To & Why Should you Make Your own Chicken Tunnel!

How to build chicken tunel

Some time ago we at the typesofchicken.com team gave you an article about how to keep your garden chicken proof, and some of our readers gave really nice feedback.

Along with the feedback came a few ideas that we truly found amazing, and one of those ideas was how to make your own chicken tunnel. After reading and somewhat understanding this idea, we at the typesofchicken.com team decided to share it with the rest of our readers.

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How to Make Your own Movable Chicken BROODER – DIY Project!

chicken brooder

We at the typesofchicken.com team want to give our readers the cheapest, most creative and easiest to make DIY projects for their chickens.

Until now we have been primarily focused on projects concerning full grown chickens, for example projects like waterer and toys for your chickens.

Since we all know the issues of letting your chicks outside to free roam or just to peck (predator threats, health problems etc.), we at the typesofchicken.com team wanted to find a way to let our chicks eat, sleep and play safely outside.

So here it is How to make your own movable outdoor chicken brooder:

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