My Snazzy Chicken Coop

Welcome to ‘My Snazzy Chicken Coop’!

With this website I hope to be providing you with informative, practical, useful and entertaining information on one of my favourite subjects; keeping chickens as pets.

The main reason my focus is on ‘pet’ chickens is because that is what mine are to me. Eggs are an added bonus but I don’t really mind if I get any or not as long as my chickens are healthy and happy. Over the years I have come to realise that keeping chickens isn’t as easy as some people would have you believe and producing your own eggs is not necessarily cheaper than buying them – but they are definitely nicer (and the yolks MUCH more orange) and it does make you a bit more self sufficient so long as your girls are giving you eggs (more self sufficient in terms of having some food available if for some reason you can’t get to the store).

And anyway, they are hilarious 🙂

How to Keep Intestinal Worms Under Control

Like most other animals, chickens are subject to intestinal worms. Worms are parasites that, upon entering your chickens’ body, will live in their intestines, leach nutrients from your chickens, and shed eggs in your chickens’ feces. Among the most common worms your chickens can harbor are roundworms, tapeworms, and hairworms. Intestinal worms are extremely contagious […]

How to Keep Your Chicks from Clogging Their Feed and Water Containers

Whether you’ve purchased chicks as babies or your chickens have hatched their eggs, you are surely aware that your baby chicks are active, hungry, and a true joy… …but they also have their quirks and idiosyncrasies. One quirk many new chicken parents struggle with is that their hungry and excited chicks tap dance in their […]