Combine two spring activities for a more efficient seed-starting setup. We live in gardening Zone 4a, and in early spring, we use our mud porch as a makeshift greenhouse. We have less space than the ...

Amy Gates uses a heat lamp to keep her northside Longmont backyard chicken coop warm when nighttime temperatures drop below 10 degrees. The heat lamp’s on a timer and in a corner of the coop where the ...

Learn how to hatch chicken eggs with a light bulb in a homemade egg incubator with information on types of incubators, heat, humidity, ventilation, and hatching. Our start with chicken-raising was ...

Is the price of eggs making you want to jump on the chicken bandwagon? Be sure you check your local ordinances regarding chickens before you make your decision. We both enjoy fresh eggs from our ...

A Columbia home sustained an estimated $15,000 in damage early Thursday morning after a heat lamp in a poultry nesting box ignited surrounding materials, sparking a fire.

Raising chicks is infinitely easier than incubating eggs, but there is still much more to it than just plopping them in a coop. They need a toasty-warm mini-coop – a brooder – to nurture them into ...