If your peeps are still indoors, spring is the best time to set up your coop and prepare to send them outside for the first ...

Raising backyard chickens can be a rewarding experience, providing fresh eggs, natural pest control, and a closer connection ...

Add one nesting box for every four hens. Stoltzfus recommends building chicken coops close enough to the house “that you can see the coop from your windows to make sure that your chickens are ...

Sprinkling herbs in your nesting boxes doesn't just beautify them ... hung a matching curtain over the door from the coop out to the chicken run. "It helps to keep the drafts out in the winter.

If you want to spend a bunch on raising chickens, you sure can. Michael Johnson shares how it doesn't have to be that way.

In his second instalment of all things chicken keeping, our columnist outlines the dos and don'ts of hen house maintenance.

The walls are papered with a wildflower pattern. A hatch door provides access from the outside to the nesting boxes, and a sign on it reads “Wicked Chickens Lay Deviled Eggs.” Connected to the coop is ...

You just have to give chickens a couple of different variables. You need to give them plenty of ventilation in the coop. You need to give them a place to lay eggs, which is called a nesting box ...

A chicken first aid kit can also be helpful. General hygiene practices help them stay healthy. “It's important to keep their coop, nest boxes, feeder and water very clean. I have shoes and ...

Henning said chicken coops need an opening to allow ventilation, while still keeping the elements out. “It is better to have the birds at 35 degrees and dry, rather than at 55 degrees and wet,” she ...