Stop Believing These 7 Backyard Chicken Myths

Besides the hobby (building, animal care, etc), I feel that the real value is knowing where your food comes from. For any food, I don't think you'll ever spend less than food from a factory farm.

I don’t have chicken and I still Watch this 😂😂😂😂

4 hens here, small homemade coop, a bag of feed cost $12-15 and last almost a year with all compost and yard scraps they get. The 12x10 dog run cost the most and my girls are happy fat chickens with amazing personalities. Best investment for my backyard garden

Finding an affordable vet who treats or is even knowledgeable on chickens is really rare across the US. With the new federal rules on preventing farmers and homesteaders from accessing livestock medications over the counter has been devastating. If anyone’s flock is in need and you have the experience and knowledge on how to treat (always do your research) we recommend finding pigeon fancier or falconry supply places who can carry what we used to be able to simply get for our chickens.

My rooster keeps the peace in the flock when the girls start fighting too much. He also protects them when they are foraging outside their run.

Our rooster flew to the top of the trees when trouble came and said good luck to ya ladies.😅😊

Those are initial costs. Over time it does save money.

I love my flock of blorbs! I interact with them every day. My oldest stopped laying last year and will turn 11 this year. So that's something to add; well cared for, they can live well past their "useful" egg laying years.

I had chickens years ago, and I remember that first winter (I lived in northern Michigan), was SO scared that their coop wasn't going to be enough for them. It was a lot of worrying over nothing. Every morning, they were ready to get out and start their day. ...which consisted of the 4 of them tromping single-file through the snow and under the deck. 😅 They just hung out under there all day, and were perfectly fine!

The false informations spreading into the world of gardening is so frustrating. I started gardening around 8 years ago but I was a notorious black thumb at the beginning, it was very difficult for me to filter the good informations from the bad one, leading to many years of frustrations at the beginning. I'm sure a large % of beginners give up due to misinformations.