Chris Lesley

Mar 6, 2024 | backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com | Chris Lesley |Karmin Garrison

Reading Time: 5 minutesBy Chris Lesley Smart gardening, material reuse, and other easy tricks to incorporate into environmentally friendly chicken keeping. Because of the negative impacts of industrial agriculture on our ecosystems, opting out of that system and keeping your own chickens is an environmentally friendly poultry choice. What chicken breeds to keep, or whether to let them free range, are more or less neutral from an environmental perspective.

Nov 2, 2023 | backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com | Chris Lesley

Reading Time: 4 minutesHow do your guinea fowl stand up to extreme weather in your area? By Chris Lesley. One of the main appeals of guinea fowl is their general hardiness and durability. But like any animal, the guinea fowl can struggle to regulate its body temperature in harsh weather and can suffer serious health consequences as a result. Fortunately, all of this is easy to avoid, and a few simple measures will protect your birds from the worst the weather has to offer.

Sep 18, 2023 | backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com | Chris Lesley

Reading Time: 4 minutesKeeping a mixed flock creates exciting dynamics with hens and guinea fowl hens. Story by Chris LesleyIn the realm of well-known livestock birds, guinea fowl place, at best, a distant fourth behind chickens, turkeys, and ducks. However, just because they’re overlooked doesn’t mean they aren’t wonderful, worthwhile birds in their own right. What Are Guinea Fowl?

Aug 28, 2023 | greenerideal.com | Chris Lesley

In recent years, keeping a chicken coop in the backyard has risen from the realm of the bizarre, through the slightly eccentric, and into the almost banal. Concurrent with the proliferation of the chickens themselves has been the proliferation of online articles about keeping them, a cavalcade of information that ranges from the genuinely helpful to the overwhelmingly technical to the downright false.

Jun 5, 2023 | beautifullife.info | Chris Lesley

Have you thought about how expensive a chicken can cost? You will be surprised to learn that the most expensive chicken is a rare black chicken with a price tag of $5000 for a pair. This absolutely black chicken is called Ayam Cemani and can boast not only a sky-high price but also an unusual appearance. Check out all 11 of the most expensive chickens and find out why they are so expensive. You might think the real challenge with keeping chickens is lowering costs, not raising them.