Category — Chicken Whisperer

Several times each month I receive letters, emails and phone calls from concerned chicken owners asking how they can keep their roosters quiet. More times than not, they are keeping chickens in urban areas. Many cities around the country ban roosters to prevent nuisance complaints from their citizens, even though there are several ways to [...]

Many cities across the country are changing their laws to become more backyard chicken friendly, or so it appears. Many of the headlines read, “City votes to allow backyard chickens” or “City is now chicken friendly,” but when you actually read the article you find out that the city is anything but chicken friendly. The [...]

Time and time again I hear people complaining about the problems they think backyard chickens will bring if allowed into the backyards of their city. Some of the more common complaints that I hear are noise, smell, rodents, disease, and property values. I would like to address each and every one of these complaints one by one.

This week, a reader has an issue with vermin. The Chicken Whisperer says it’s all about food storage.

Every week, the Chicken Whisperer offers advice on raising chickens in your very own backyard. This week, we received a question from one of our members in New Jersey:
“How do you keep dogs from attacking our neighbors’ chickens? We have an electric fence but sometimes it doesn’t work!”
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t [...]

Farmers’ Almanac is pleased to welcome Andy Schneider, A.K.A. “Chicken Whisperer,” to our collection of contributors and experts. Andy is the host of “Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer,” a nationally broadcast weekly radio show about keeping backyard poultry.