This is from June of 2025.
Well, we are quickly coming up on our first full year with backyard chickens. We have learned a ton, and we are going to start sharing this year all that we have learned, so that others can play along at home.
For this description, I would like to bust 1 myth. Chickens are not as smelly as you would think they are. Most of us who have backyard chickens, only have a few, so the smell is never really that bad. Even in the hot months of July & August, and even if you haven’t clean the coop in a month or 2. You still need to stay on top of things and keep it relatively clean, but for the most part, there is not too much work for what you get from backyard chickens.