In Winter 2017 The Chicken Spinner was featured in the member newsletter distributed by peCK – The Peninsula Chicken Keepers. peCK is a local educational, resource, and social group for people in the Virginia Peninsula area who have backyard chickens

This article was originally published in December 2017 and updated in January 2020. Many of us look at this article with a puzzled face, since everyone knows that the perfect poultry perch is 2” x 4”. Well, for many backyard

This post was originally published in February 2018 but was updated in January 2020. We had been collecting eggs for well over a year and have started noticing a few issues. Not bad issues, but just… funky. One thing is

With challenges in keeping and maintaining a small backyard flock, space is often an issue and finding ways to limit boredom can be one of the biggest challenges. Without constant activity and positive social interaction, poor behaviors can develop, which

There are lots of topics for discussion when it comes to keeping chickens, but one of the most controversial is whether or not you should heat the chicken coop during winter. For me, the answer was no. Adjusting my birds

Roger and Wendy Iles co-wrote this blog, same subject, just different views! R- With winter almost gone, or the wishing for it, I found myself subscribing to ideas that up until now I have not been a strong proponent for