General Archives - Life is Better with Chickens https://betterwithchickens.com/category/general/ Triumph (and sometimes trouble) at the henhouse Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:25:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://betterwithchickens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cropped-cropped-p_egg-rotated-1-32x32.jpg General Archives - Life is Better with Chickens https://betterwithchickens.com/category/general/ 32 32 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 Renata and the Case of the Bulging Wattles: A Chicken with a Tick Bite https://betterwithchickens.com/chicken-with-a-tick-bite/ https://betterwithchickens.com/chicken-with-a-tick-bite/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:00:36 +0000 https://betterwithchickens.com/?p=417 This story begins with some bad, sad, hard news: in early December we lost one of our two sweet tiny twins to an in-coop hawk attack. More about “coop maintenance (super hard) lessons learned” to come. This left our sweet Renata a tiny gal without a tiny pal. Chicken body language can be ambivalent at...

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]]> https://betterwithchickens.com/chicken-with-a-tick-bite/feed/ 0 Trouble at the Henhouse, or Raising Chickens is A Lot https://betterwithchickens.com/trouble-at-the-henhouse-or-raising-chickens-is-a-lot/ https://betterwithchickens.com/trouble-at-the-henhouse-or-raising-chickens-is-a-lot/#respond Tue, 17 Oct 2023 06:00:02 +0000 https://betterwithchickens.com/?p=347 I have written quite a bit about the triumphs and near losses of raising chickens, but friends, it all exists. The subtitle of this website is “Triumph (and sometimes Trouble) at the Henhouse.” I chose this for two reasons: My favourite Canadian band, The Tragically Hip, released an album in the 90’s called Trouble at...

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