The girls got a lot of garden time in the last couple days, between cleaning up beds, leaving behind a little compost, and eating spreading out cover crop seed.
What’s cuter than black chickens against a backdrop of fall color? Nothing, I say!
Ella, queen of the woodpile.
Mama Cass - is...
I am looking to move my flock of layers to my overgrown, fenced in garden. My question is what can I leave in there and what should I remove. I know tomato plants are poisonous, amongst some other plants, but I want to hear everyone's opinion who is willing to help and share. Thanks in advance!
Those of us new to chickens and living on small city lots aren’t able to follow a lot of traditional chicken-keeping practices. Full-time free-ranging is out, for one, and all the advantages that it offers. So are the benefits of keeping a rooster to guard and guide the flock. And we generally...
While I have been planning on getting chickens for several years, we finally decided this was the year. The plan all along was to use the chickens to try and keep the bugs out of the garden beds. I had originally envisioned a chicken tractor that i moved once a week or so, but then I realized I...
I am in coop-planning phase and have some questions for the chicken experts out there.
1) Chickens & garden: I came across this blog the other day (http://houseandbloom.com/from-grass-to-garden-presenting-the-potager/) and would really like to build something similar in my backyard. My thought...
We have just moved to Walla Walla WA and decided to purchase an acre so we could raise some animals and a garden. We were gifted two small flocks of youngish chickens within 3 months of moving in and integrated them together over time. 6 Rhode Island reds and then 5 assorted motley crew...