chicken & gardening

Hi all I’m a midwife, wife and mama of four kiddies now living in Ireland. Love chickens- discovered their awesomeness when living in Australia the past 7 years and have just moved back to my homeland. Setting up a homestead currently (that is the dream!) with garden/veggie planting and starting...

Hi, from N.C.! It’s great to find communities out there to share with and provide support for people who are into chickens as well as perhaps all-things farms. My husband and I are back living full-time on our family horse farm for the 1st time in over 25 years. No horses for now, we are living...

Hello everyone! My family just moved to the Chardon area and we have about 2 1/2 acres and are looking for more land potentially. I want to learn all the things livestock in farming and there are so many places to start and Google can seem overwhelming. I would love to find someone in the area...

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Hey y’all! This is Merle the chicken. I got her out of a prairie bluebell bin at rural king. I don’t know if that is what she is or not. What are your ideas on her breed. If you have this breed let me see pictures. :) The pictures below are her now and when she was a little one.

We have a flock of 8 hens who happily live in our back garden. They have an Eglu fox proof coop meaning in the summer they don’t need to be shut in their coop at night. Over the last few weeks one chicken in particular, (the second in the pecking order) has been making an extremely loud...

Hey y'all, my name is Fully, and I am looking to start a garden. I have the land for it, I know I will have to keep the chickens out of the garden though. I have some chicken netting to put around the outside of it, but I am worried that the garden will get eaten by grasshoppers also. It is on...

Hello everyone! Happy day from Luvvie. I'm still getting familiar with my flock but I think she's my French black copper marans. 2 weeks.

I had a modest flock (9) chickens for a few years. I got rid of them in fall & am starting again with a larger flock of 5 different breeds. Dark Cornish, Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, Sussex, Black Australorp, and Whiting True Blue. Added the latter as ordering a couple more meant free shipping. How...