coop in their yard when his wife walked on to the scene. While one chicken with poop on its feet walks around, Asafa asked Alyshia to help him clean the coop. “Hell no,” she said. “Why does their foot ...

Make your backyard coop easier to manage in just a few steps. Owning a flock for fresh eggs will always involve some work; cleaning the coop, collecting eggs, and ensuring your chickens stay happy and ...

There's nothing to welcome spring like mucking out the chicken coop after weeks on end of arctic weather. My poor chickens had been cooped up so long that when the balmy weather came and I flung open ...

Like cooking an egg, timing is everything with poultry manure, a Vermont master gardener warns this week. First-timers in the world of small-scale poultry might be tempted to shovel a week's worth of ...

The following is an excerpt from Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon (Chelsea Green, 2010). In his humorous, anecdotal manifesto, Logsdon imparts how to transform farm, pet and ...