Have questions about caring for your new chicks? Wondering how to build a brooder box? How big should a brooder box be? Learn here about the essentials for creating a brooder box. Having an area ...

Raising chicks is infinitely easier than incubating eggs, but there is still much more to it than just plopping them in a coop. They need a toasty-warm mini-coop – a brooder – to nurture them into ...

But it’s important to know how many chickens you’d like to raise. A medium-sized chicken needs at least three square feet of floor space inside the coop (a chicken’s cage or pen) and eight to 10 ...

Hi! I'm Alexa, author of the blog TheDuvallHomestead.com where I write about farm to table eating and homemade natural living. 15 years ago I started learning how to cook real food with real ...

Today, I want to focus on critical factors of brooding, cost implications, production efficiencies and the health of the chicks in contractual brooding. During a regular chitchat with my farmer ...

As soon as the weather begins to warm, chickens across the world begin to think of hatching eggs and raising baby chicks. But they're not the only ones. Spring also prompts humans to start thinking ...

The ultimate source of energy for crucial activities such as cooking and heating, which involves heating process for poultry farmers brooding chicks in rural areas is burning wood and other ...