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 🙂

Chicken Raiser Profile: Lisa Steele

Andrew got to know Lisa in 2010 and this is his interview with her from December of that year. Her husband is retired from the United Sates Navy (thanks for your service!). They live on a “hobby farm” in Virginia, where Lisa is slowly (or not so slowly) becoming a committed farmer and agricultural expert. […]

The Chicken Run – 5 Tips for Giving Your Chickens Space to “Run”

Chickens love to scratch and peck – it’s what they do. They will love to be outside pecking around for bugs etc if they get the chance to and unless the weather is really bad, or they are laying an egg, most would choose to be outside for the majority of their time. In small […]