Posts Tagged Chickens

When I started using my flock for pest control, I was amazed at how effective my 15 chickens were at keeping the ticks at bay, and I began to wonder, how many ticks does a chicken eat per day, anyway? The answer I discovered will probably surprise you.

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.

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.

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.