In fact, even free range chickens should have a coop to return to at the end of the night. The most important things are to keep it dry, warm and easy to clean.

As the weather cools off, more chicken predators will be looking for food. Here's how to stay ahead of them and protect your ...

With more municipalities - including Milwaukee - allowing home chicken-raising, backyard coops are thriving. ... We let the chickens free range and they go all over the yard.

This edition of the Happy Homestead talks about raising your own laying hens from hatching all the way up to full grown hens ...

Other manufacturers make large-scale chicken tractors that accommodate 600 chickens. Whether small-scale, like Egg Cart’n’s, or large scale, this method allows chickens to be moved to new ...

We wanted to be able to free range the chickens, which would be possible in Mom’s backyard, but a movable coop wasn’t ideal for her situation.

They were the original free-range birds, running around without restraint in the back of the house where my grandmother kept a close eye on them. ... And that coops and chicken wire are “inadequate ...