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Some of you have made comments about how clean my hen house is ✨ So I thought I would just go over with you, what my cleaning regimen is ? Some cleaning tasks are daily, others are weekly, and some even yearly Once a year, I go through the whole entire coop Brush down...

Coop expansion... I've expanded my coop one, two, three times ? My recommendation to you is to just build your coop bigger than you ever think you're going to need Because chicken math is real!!! You're going to find chickens you want because the eggs are a different...

Vacation time!! ? Let's say you've got a flock But you want to go away for a week, or a few days ? You want to take a trip somewhere that means being gone away from your homestead What do you do about handling your flock? ? There's a couple of things you can do... You...

There's two times when you might need to get your hands on some electrolytes for your chickens One is in the summer when it's extra hot out ? The other time is if you think you've got a dehydrated chicken Chickens can overheat, get heat stress, and even die since they...

Chicken saddles or chicken aprons... ? What is that? If you've got roosters ? When they are mating their hens, they tug at the feathers on the back Or scratch at them with their feet, and it will strip the feathers It could pull them out And if it gets down to the...

How do you handle ants around the hen house? ? You can't put down chemicals You don't want to harm the chickens There are some options for natural ant spray ? One of the options is a citrus spray ? Ants don't like citrus. Similar to the way dogs don't, it makes them...

What are blood spots or meat spots that you might see in backyard eggs? ? And is it okay to eat these eggs? A blood spot is a ruptured blood vessel that happened during the egg laying process A meat spot is similar, it is a piece of tissue that is sloughing off from...

What is pasty butt? When you've got young newly hatched chicks, anywhere from three days to about a week old It's a condition that you might see where the poop on the little vent on their butt, dries It sticks there and dries, and that can become a problem If it seals...