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Let me take you on a quick tour of how we set things up for chicken butchering day to make things run as efficiently as possible. (No chickens are shown in this video.)

Covers fun and engaging ideas to enrich chickens’ environment through playgrounds. Suggestions include swings, climbing areas, dust-bathing spots, and perches, all aimed at keeping hens active, reducing stress, and discouraging destructive behaviors.

Transform your backyard into a chicken paradise with these 15 playground ideas. From simple swings to elaborate obstacle courses, find the perfect enrichment activities for your flock. Keep your chickens happy, healthy, and entertained.

Grow the food your chickens love to eat by planting a garden for chicken feed! Plant these fruit, grain and vegetable plants to harvest for chicken feed and become more self reliant. The chickens will love the treats, and you'll save money off the feed bill by gardening with your chickens! Plus you'll be able to provide high quality organic feed for cheap!

Enhance your backyard flock's environment with the 21 best plants to grow in a chicken run to provide natural shade, enrichment, and supplemental nutrition. This guide features bird-safe options like mulberries, apples, and blackcurrants that offer delicious snacks for your hens while beautifying your coop area. Planting these hardy varieties helps manage soil quality and provides a more engaging, natural habitat for your chickens to thrive in. #ChickenRun #BackyardChickens #Homesteading

Raising Cornish Cross chickens is a bit different than other chickens, and this is because they're meat birds. These chickens grow faster so that they can reach butchering age faster. If you're ready to raise your own meat birds, here are a few things you need to know.

Raising Healthy Chickens for Eggs- Backyard Why is Chicken Enrichment Important? Auditory Enrichment, Nutritional Enrichment, Physical Enrichment, Social & Visual Enrichment, 20 Ideas For Chicken Enrichment, Bail of Straw to climb on, Dog Puzzle, Dust Bath, Foraging such as a chicken tractor or free ranging, Frozen Treats, Ladders, Mirrors or CD’s, Perches, Piñata of cabbage, Pinwheels, Shrubs and bushes, Human Connection, Stumps, Swing, Treat Ball

Oh, a baby turkey on the horizon! But there are a few very, very important tidbits of information that are needed to raise them successfully.

Planning the inside of your chicken coop? This guide covers how to layout nesting boxes, roosts, feeders, and storage to keep your flock happy and your chores simple. Perfect for walk-in coops, shed conversions, or small backyard setups. Easy, practical, and designed for real-life backyard chicken keepers

Looking for inside of chicken coop ideas? Get inspired with these 19 coop designs! From simple inside of chicken coop ideas DIY projects to large chicken coop ideas inside, find the perfect setup for your flock. Read Now!