A rooster crowing at 2 a.m. may be reacting to a motion light, a prowling predator, cold, hunger, or another rooster rather than simply being noisy. Learn which nighttime clues matter and how darkness, security, bedding, food, and routine can quiet the coop.
Wondering if a predator is visiting your chicken coop? Here are the warning signs to watch for before you lose a chicken.
Looking for the best chicken run flooring? Compare dirt, sand, gravel, concrete, wood chips, and more to help stop digging predators.
Learn the early egg bound chicken symptoms and how to act fast before it’s too late. Simple signs every chicken owner should know.
Treat mites and lice fast with this natural poultry spray safe for chickens and coop use.
Looking for a chicken coop latch raccoons can’t open? Here are the best latch styles to help keep your flock safe from clever nighttime predators.
Simple daily, weekly, and monthly chicken care routine to keep your flock healthy, clean, and productive year round.
Oyster shell cannot replace grit, because they solve two entirely different problems. Chickens need hard grit to grind anything beyond processed feed, while oyster shell supplies calcium for eggshells, and free-ranging does not always provide enough grit from the soil.
A floppy comb is not automatically bad news. Breed, age, laying maturity, heat, molting, mites, illness, stress, and frostbite can all change its shape, so the comb’s color and your chicken’s behavior matter just as much.
Oyster shell is calcium for strong eggshells, while grit works like teeth inside a chicken’s gizzard. They are not interchangeable, so this practical coop setup explains how to offer both separately, including what chicks, layers, roosters, and free-ranging birds actually need.
If you’ve confirmed mites in your flock, the spray you choose and how you use it makes all the difference. Here’s what works, what doesn’t, and why most treatments fail the first time.
Keeping chickens supplied with clean water sounds simple until it becomes one more daily chore. An automatic waterer takes some of that hassle off your plate.
