In his second instalment of all things chicken keeping, our columnist outlines the dos and don'ts of hen house maintenance.

Protective fences and hutches are essential, said Urtel, since foxes, raccoons, weasels, hawks, owls, and other predators commonly make chickens an easy meal. Amanda Henning of Cornell Cooperative ...

As the warming temps of late spring give way to the stifling heat of summer, it’s more important than ever to keep your pets ...

A chicken coop should be the size of a large doghouse, allowing each bird ... Create a chicken playground with swings, mirrors, or plastic children’s playground equipment. Chickens don’t ...

But it isn't all making pancakes with freshly laid eggs: your flower beds could suffer tremendously, with flowers being eaten ...

Children will love the animal hours, feeding newborn calves and lambs and collecting eggs from the chicken coop. There are pony ... with huge windows, a large cantilevered section and zippy ...

Plastic and galvanized metal are the two most common ... people use a heated bottom for a metallic waterer or a heated rock put into the water. Rent-a-Coop is a well-known company that rents chickens ...

By the time he graduated from high school, he and Olof had been reduced to living in a former chicken coop, whose single ... a perforated-plastic filter tip for cigarettes. In 1934, he married ...

The OverEZ Farmhouse Large Chicken Coop, complete with feeder, waterer, and 33 pounds of all-natural hemp bedding, is now ...

The price of eggs keeps going up; if you enjoy a fresh omelette or scramble, you may be considering getting your own chickens ... our coop design, we have four breeze windows below the large ...

All the renter needs to do is refresh the coop (move and clean it), give the chickens food and water, and collect the eggs — each chicken will usually lay an egg every one to two days.