New to backyard chickens? Start here. Complete beginner guides covering everything from your first flock setup to daily care routines — simple, practical, and beginner-friendly.
The photographs of farm life with chickens are beautiful. Golden hour, fluffy hens, fresh eggs in a wicker basket. And those things are real — they happen regularly, and they are as good as they look. But there are things that happen between the golden-hour photographs that don’t quite make it to the feed, and […]
There is a particular kind of life that many people quietly imagine — mornings in the garden, chickens moving through the yard in their unhurried way, the specific pleasure of collecting eggs that came from birds you raised yourself. A farm with chickens, even a small one, even one that exists in a suburban backyard […]
Here is the thing nobody tells you about raising chickens: it is one of the most quietly life-changing decisions you will ever make on a farm. One week in and you will be watching your flock the way other people watch Netflix. Three weeks in and you will have given all of them names. Six […]
