Your Very Own Chicken Coop

Learn How To Raise Your Own Chickens

A Good Home Chicken Coop Makes Your Chickens Happy

Today a lot of folks are considering a home chicken coop for their backyard. They like the idea of fresh eggs daily and access to all natural poultry meat—meat with no growth hormones or antibiotics.And then there are those who like the thought of a chicken or some chickens for pets.

Oh Yeah and this pet can still give you eggs every day! But if you are thinking about putting a home chicken coop in your yard there are some issues you really need to think about first. Number one issue–Does your local municipality allow the raising of chickens in… Continue reading

Backyard Chicken Coops – How Does Building Backyard Chicken Coops Change Your Lifestyle?

Spending a lot of money on organic chickens and eggs? Many people are choosing to build their own backyard chicken coops to save some money. The question, however, is how much will it actually effect your current lifestyle?

The answer is not much, if you are looking for just a few chickens that produce enough eggs for your family.

Building backyard chicken coops does not have to be complicated or expensive. If you take the time to decide exactly what you want and choose a good set of chicken coop plans, the time and money required to build it can… Continue reading

Advantage Of Buying Chicken Coop Plans

For many people as the cost of items the store keeps going up they try to find ways to become self sufficient. One way that a person can do that quickly and easily is to have some chickens running around in the backyard. For some, this idea may seem kind of old fashioned for others though this is the perfect solution. However, before starting out on this venture they need to know about the positives of buying chicken coop plans.

One benefit of using these style of plans is they generally are developed by a professional. A professionally designed plan… Continue reading

Chicken Coop Plans ? Picking the Right Breed for Your Coop

When you’ve finally decided that you are going to build a chicken coop, have you thought about what breed of chickens you are going to raise? I know that I didn’t when I first started. I thought “A chicken is a chicken right?” WRONG! I did not realize that creating chicken coop plans is not just about the building itself but the chickens you are planning to raise. There are so many different kinds of chickens you could raise, and all have a different purpose. That is why when you first decide to raise chickens it is important to know… Continue reading

Backyard Chicken Coops – Why Even Have One and Do Backyard Chicken Coops Save You Money?

So? How much are you really going to save by finding one of those plans for backyard chicken coops and building it? All I can say is that after I ran the numbers, I didn’t hesitate at all. It really makes sense to do the little bit of work to care for chickens and build a chicken coop to save money and produce your own organic chickens and eggs.

The number of people seriously looking to build backyard chicken coops is increasing. More and more of us are wanting to save money, change our lifestyle to a greener one and… Continue reading

Health Benefits of Pastured Chickens

Did you know that chickens raised on pasture are nutritionally superior to those raised in commercial factory settings? Pastured poultry are chickens (and other birds like ducks and geese) that are raised in bottomless cages on grass where they peck and scratch at the ground and hunt for bugs and seeds along with their grain. Their manure is spread over wide areas of pasture as they are moved. This is better for the birds and the soil.

Sometimes they are mistakenly called free range chickens. Free range chickens are still kept in confinement, they are just allowed to “free range”… Continue reading

Farming Has Been Awarded Multi

British “The Independent” 19, citing the United Nations World Food Programme’s report warned, “With the deepening global financial crisis, the world is at a critical juncture, there will be hunger in danger of losing control.” The report said the G8 meeting in Italy agriculture ministers in their efforts to “develop a common route out of this crisis to respond to world food problem.”

Food crisis due to “production unreasonable”

According to “The Independent” reported on the 18th, the Group of Eight summit, said in a report this grain, the world grain market to a “structural” problem, unless food production in… Continue reading