Posts Tagged Chickens

How To Build A Chicken Coop On A Slope: A Hillside Hen Haven

How To Build A Chicken Coop On A Slope: A Hillside Hen Haven

Living as a homesteader in a landscape where hills and mountains abound, it didn’t take me long to figure out how to build a chicken coop on a slope. Sloping or even steep landscapes don’t have to stand in the way of safe housing, hatching, or raising happy chickens. Actually, it allows you to consider creative designs and take advantage of your rolling landscape.

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Growing Herbs For Chickens To Raise A Happy, Healthy Flock

Growing Herbs For Chickens To Raise A Happy, Healthy Flock

Whether you’re a fan of chicken feed, free-ranging, a chicken garden, or all three, growing herbs for chickens is a great way to supplement your flock’s diet with fresh nutrition. Many herbs and spices are packed with health benefits for your little foragers, so getting familiar with which herbs are the safest and healthiest for your brood is key when starting out.

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Healthy, Affordable Ways To Feed Chickens Without Buying Feed

Healthy, Affordable Ways To Feed Chickens Without Buying Feed

Raising chickens can get expensive quickly, so more and more people are brainstorming how to feed chickens without buying feed. If you’ve read my post on combining your chickens and your garden, you know that I’m all for cutting costs, saving space, and providing natural food for chickens and fertilizer for the garden in one step.

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How To Build The Perfect Chicken Coop Garden Combo


How To Build The Perfect Chicken Coop Garden Combo


When setting up, practicality, convenience, and space-saving strategies are important for success, and that’s what I love about building a chicken coop garden combo. When you use your garden to feed your chickens and use your chickens to fertilize and prepare your garden, you are about as close to hands-free homesteading as you can get.

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