Diet Archives - Life is Better with Chickens https://betterwithchickens.com/category/diet/ Triumph (and sometimes trouble) at the henhouse Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:24:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://betterwithchickens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cropped-cropped-p_egg-rotated-1-32x32.jpg Diet Archives - Life is Better with Chickens https://betterwithchickens.com/category/diet/ 32 32 Snoopy’s Mid-Winter Wardrobe Refresh: How to Help Molting Chickens https://betterwithchickens.com/how-to-help-molting-chickens/ https://betterwithchickens.com/how-to-help-molting-chickens/#respond Mon, 11 Nov 2024 06:00:28 +0000 https://betterwithchickens.com/?p=458 When I wrote about caring for chickens in winter weather, I mentioned the struggles of sweet Snoopy, a California White hen who has combs and wattles to match many roosters and the stiffer feathers that tend not to pack quite as much padding under the primary layers. These physical traits are indicative of breeds more...

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]]> https://betterwithchickens.com/how-to-help-molting-chickens/feed/ 0 Let it Snow!? Caring for Backyard Chickens in Winter Weather        https://betterwithchickens.com/chickens-in-winter-weather/ https://betterwithchickens.com/chickens-in-winter-weather/#respond Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:00:07 +0000 https://betterwithchickens.com/?p=439 Sure, right now we’re savoring autumn in east Tennessee (and many other places), but the balmy temps will soon drop. Maybe your first chicks are big girls now and you’re thinking What do we do when it gets really cold? Maybe, like our first brood, it hasn’t crossed your mind just yet. In either case,...

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]]> https://betterwithchickens.com/chickens-in-winter-weather/feed/ 0 Chickens Are Not Gardeners https://betterwithchickens.com/chickens-are-not-gardeners/ https://betterwithchickens.com/chickens-are-not-gardeners/#respond Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:00:55 +0000 https://betterwithchickens.com/?p=184 Chickens are tiny rototillers. Chickens are lightly domesticated velociraptors. Chickens are annihilators of insecta and annelida—annihilators with hyper-focused intensity. Chickens are not gardeners. Gardening with chickens? Before you read more, may I suggest Metallica’s Seek and Destroy. A chicken’s mission is to gobble up every bug, worm, grub, leaf, fruit, and whatever other nourishment it...

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]]> https://betterwithchickens.com/chickens-are-not-gardeners/feed/ 0 About Phaedra, Our Sweet, Sweet Parrot-Beaked Chicken Girl https://betterwithchickens.com/our-sweet-parrot-beak-chicken-girl/ https://betterwithchickens.com/our-sweet-parrot-beak-chicken-girl/#respond Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:00:24 +0000 https://betterwithchickens.com/?p=163 Like humans, if you spend time getting to know your chicken girls, you’ll likely find they each have their own unexplainable and entirely lovable special needs. I don’t say this to make light of any being living with challenging disability. I say this because we are each unique and perfectly damaged in some small way...

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