Backyard Chickens For Beginners
Get Started With Backyard Chickens For Self-Sufficiency
Did you ever wish you could afford organic, free-range eggs? Do you want to have a lifestyle less dependent on industrialized food sources? Beginners can easily get started with backyard chickens for protein self-sufficiency. Chickens are often the first food animals on a self-sufficient homestead. They require little in the way of space and maintenance. They provide fertilizer and insect control. Their varied personalities provide endless entertainment. Most importantly, your own organicall...

Backyard Chickens on Twitter
Chickens, Coops, Hens and Eggs
A current trend is to move away from the sterile exotic lawn landscapes and move back towards useful, food producing yards. With that, the reappearance of chickens in the backyard naturally follows. All over North America, peeps are building coops and chicken tractors for hens that will lay healthy, "home grown" eggs. And where can you find up-to-date information about building chicken coops and caring for baby chicks and hens? Why, on Twitter, of course. I've searched tweets for all sorts o...

Raising Hens In Your Backyard
Want To Try Raising Hens For Eggs?
Keeping hens is not everyone idea of fun but, of the many creatures that someone could keep as a pet, chickens are unequalled because they produce something eatable unlike other animals such as horses, cats, fish and dogs . As a matter of fact, keeping hens as pets yield benefits in the long-term as hens are a good generator of eggs and fresh meat opposed to what you generally purchase in your local supermarket.

About Backyard Chickens
Growing chickens (for eggs or meat) in your own backyard is exploding in popularity. While raising chickens is fairly simple, there are rules and techniques that increase productivity and facilitate care. Chickens can be great fun and super pets. They have surprising personalities and, by and large, like people. Homegrown eggs provide significanty higher vitamin content and more Omega3 than store bought eggs. Store eggs can be up to 45 days old and fresher is better!