Murano Chicken Farm

When talking about saving money with chickens, most everyone discusses how to cut your chicken keeping costs. I do it quite often actually. Today though I want to talk about how keeping chickens ...

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Today I'm going to do something completely new for me... I'm going to talk about something I just started doing! I learned how to salt cure egg yolks a few months back and they are amazing! They'...

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A chicken coop doesn't need very much for the chickens to be happy. Some windows, a few nest boxes, perches and a place for their food & water and they will be perfectly content! However, adding ...

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I may have several chicken coops but not all of them have names. Why, you ask? Well, I couldn't find anything that fit for 2 of them! So they shall remain nameless until I decide on something I t...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2024/02/funny-chicken-coop-names.html

Anybody that has raised a mixed flock of chickens will tell you that the roosters can be quite a problem for the hens some times! It's kind of an art to get your ratio of roosters to hens just pe...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2023/11/your-roosters-need-their-own-pen.html

A few years back I was helping Brinsea incubators with their displays and demonstrations at the Mother Earth News fair when it was in Pennsylvania. I had the eggs all ready to hatch but the one p...

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Ducklings are one of the cutest baby animals in existence! I have been raising ducks since 2009 and have had both standard size, large and bantamn ducks! I started hatching duck eggs as soon as I...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2023/09/how-to-hatch-duck-eggs.html

I've been raising chickens here since 2010 and we've only had 2 major predator attacks and they were both dogs. Yes, we've had our share of persistent foxes or raccoons over the years, but dogs t...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2023/08/protecting-chickens-from-stray-dogs.html

I was browsing Pinterest a few months back and saw a 'recipe' for Summer frozen yogurt treats for kids. I was intrigued so I read the whole post and it sounded exactly like something my chickens ...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2023/06/frozen-yogurt-fruit-treats-for-chickens.html

Hens do not need a rooster to lay eggs. In fact, almost every egg on the grocery store shelves was laid by a hen that did not have access to a rooster! It just doesn't make financial sense for co...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2023/04/how-to-tell-if-hens-eggs-are-fertilized.html

I was recently chatting with some people about guinea fowl and one of them mentioned that she was thinking about getting guineas instead of chickens because they don't need a coop. This is the fi...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2023/03/do-guinea-fowl-need-coop.html

This year I wanted to do another Easter egg decorating craft with brown eggs. The majority of egg laying hens in private homes throughout the country are brown egg layers. That coupled with the n...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2023/03/how-to-decorate-rhinestone-easter-eggs.html

When I started raising chickens one of the first breeds I picked was the Polish chicken. I had decided to hatch the eggs myself and found a breeder online that shipped eggs. I hatched a few pure ...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2023/02/polish-chickens-should-you-raise-them.html

Have you ever had a period of time when everything seems to go wrong with your flock of chickens and you just can't seem to fix it? That was my whole summer! It started with predators but many of...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2023/02/when-chicken-keeping-goes-wrong.html

Last week a friend asked me to stop over and take a look at one of her hens. The poor thing had a full crop and it didn't seem to be going down overnight. Also, my friend told me the chicken had ...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2023/01/treating-sour-crop-in-chickens.html

Years ago I used to write a weekly series of chicken & egg jokes, cartoons and funny stories called Friday Funnies. I would publish old jokes i knew, ones readers would send me etc. At the time b...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2021/12/funny-chicken-jokes.html

I have mentioned a time or two how much I loved rising the chicken breed Golden Comet. Since they are such a great breed, I decided it's time they get their own post! These hens are well known fo...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2022/11/golden-comet-chicken.html

Chicken keeping has exploded in popularity lately It seems like everybody knows somebody who's raising backyard chickens for eggs! Most people are content to just have a few chickens, enjoy their...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2022/10/how-to-be-crazy-chicken-lady.html

I finally started taking all the eggs off my silkie hens at least twice a day! You cannot leave an egg in with silkies because it takes about 6 hours before one of them decides she's broody and s...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2022/09/how-to-freezing-raw-eggs.html

I've been raising poultry since 2009 and through the years I have raised lots of different types of poultry. Some of these worked out really well and others not so much! When choosing other poult...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2022/08/easy-to-raise-poultry-besides-chickens.html

I've received several emails from readers lately asking if it's okay to raise a chicken by itself? Some of these chickens are being raised in the house as pets, but others are being raised outsid...

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Today I had to clean out one of the chicken coops and it took me a little longer than I expected. I probably only do a deep cleaning about once a year, though I will dust down the spider webs and...

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I have been hatching my own eggs for about 12 years now and during that time I have used several different types of incubators in all different price levels. When you begin hatching eggs, choosin...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2022/06/how-to-choose-poultry-incubator.html

I've been raising chickens for over a dozen years now and I've noticed that some chickens are really easy to catch and others are quite difficult. I have lots of chickens that will jump right up ...

https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2022/04/how-to-catch-chicken.html

How weird did 2022 get? There had not been very much activity in the world of bird flu over the last few years and suddenly it was being detected in wild bird populations. Just to recap really qu...

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