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Which Building Materials Are Safe And Which Are Not For Chickens To Peck At!

A big number of chicken keepers, especially the DIY type have experienced their chickens pecking at the materials that were used inside or outside of the chicken coop. This, in most cases, is not that important or bad for the chickens but from time to time chickens can peck at things that are build of materials that are unsafe for them and that can lead to more trouble soon after.

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10 Best Chicken Keeping Advice

Chicken Keeping Advices

For some individuals raising backyard chickens can be quite the challenge. Fortunately, our team did some research, so worry no more because we are going to make raising backyard chickens a piece of cake for you, by telling you these 10 easy hacks.

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Fixing A Muddy Run – How To Do It!

Fixing A Muddy Run

Having a muddy run around your chicken coop can have a bad affect on the health of your chickens.  It can increase the chances of your chickens getting bumblefeet and of course bad hygiene which can be easily transferred inside of the coop and that leads to many more problems. This is why a well maintained run is as important as a well maintained coop. 

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Ventilation In Your Chicken Coop – Why Is It Important & How To Provide It

Ventilation In Your Coop

Many chicken keepers tend to forget the importance of ventilation in their coop and they build their coop without leaving room for it.

Ventilation is important both for the summer and the winter for your chickens.

Forgetting to add ventilation in your chicken coop plans may lead to some problems later in your time as a chicken keeper. This is what inspired us at the typesofchicken.com team to prepare this article for our readers.

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How to get rid of flies in a chicken coop

How to Protect Your Chicken Coop From Flies

Chickens can be dirty, they require scheduled clean-ups and proper care so that more illnesses can be avoided.

Flies can be a constant problem during hot summer days, and there are many things around your coop that attract them.

From the bad smell of feces to the moisture that can occur in your coop. Flies are dangerous illness carriers when it comes to chicken, and that is why we at the typesofchicken.com team for this article will give you a few tips on how to get rid of flies in a chicken coop.

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Pros & Cons About Keeping Faverolles Chicken!

Faverolles Chicken

As we promised in one of our previous articles this Monday we will give our readers an article about the Pros & Cons of keeping Faverolle chickens.

We at the typesofchicken.com team started these weekly articles about the pros and cons of keeping a particular chicken breed with the purpose of helping you with choosing the next addition to your flock.

This is why we are primarily focusing on chicken breeds that you can mostly find in more experienced chicken keeper`s flocks.

Chicken breeds that are famous for their egg-laying presence or friendliness, we at the typesofchicken.com team want to give you the best ideas for the next addition to your flock.

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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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