Where to go for helpful chicken keeping advice.

Where to go when you are in need of helpful advice.

Have you ever been in need of advice and not sure where to look for it? Are you just looking for a place to talk chicken with other chicken enthusiasts. Or have you ever just been curious about something and not know where to find the answers or who to ask? 

Well there are many places you can go to find information and answers to those every day questions and comments, if you know where to find them. I started my expedition in chickens with only a box and i had many questions. After spending 15 minutes here, 20 minutes there, 10 minutes here over a few days i came a cross the website backyard chickens, http://www.backyardchickens.com/. You can surf this site for free and you can register for free. There is unlimited amounts of information from peoples experience and people can be very helpful. They even have a section in there forums where you can talk with others in your area and most areas even have meet ups were you can meet up and talk with people in person and just talk chicken. 

If you are on Facebook there are also groups created for poultry keeping. Since i'm located in California i belong to California poultry people. We post about issues we are having and people help us out, we share pictures of our birds whether they are show birds or just a nice pet to have. It has a wide array of people from those that show there birds and those that keep them as a hobby or just for eggs. There is one downside to these groups on Facebook. There are some groups that you will need to be added to by people in the group. So if you don't know anyone in the group you might have an issue finding a group. CPP (California Poultry People) is a private group to stop people from joining it just to spam it with things that are completely irrelevant to chicken/poultry keeping. For those of you that are in California and are wanting to join CPP the you can contact a few people to join. You can contact me through my Facebook or you can contact the CPP admin and creator Tricia Olvera.

There are also the ever so helpful blogs people create with amazing information and tips on everyday chicken keeping. One day i hope to get my blog to such a point where i have loads of information that people can just search through it to fine helpful and much needed help but at the moment its not there. But there are other amazing blogs, like Feathers on the ground blog where she talks about keeping poultry, Nigeria Dwarf Goats and much more. Also I love watching for Kathy's new topic on her blog. (http://www.The-Chicken-Chick.com ) There are so many exciting things going on on her blog you could never get bored. She does decorating idea's for your coop to keep it looking exciting. Ideas/recipes on cooking, home decorating, crafting and much much more. Not only does she have her blog but she also does give away events that are never items that would couldn't use/need. She also likes to keep us all updated on how her flock is doing and what new clutch of eggs freida is getting to hatch since she always seems to be either sitting or raising chicks that are the size of her.

And finally there is Youtube. There are many users on youtube that vlog about there experiences and there day to day life. One of my favorite channels to watch is Michiganshowpony, who talks about homesteading and the little things she does that make life simpler and trick to keeping her animals healthy and entertained. 

So the information is out there if you just sit down and spend the time to search for it and be patient, sometimes the first site us not the best one for you. As a word of advice, i suggest that before you have any emergency need for someones help, spend some time to find a site that you like so when the time does come that you need urgent help, it will be all that much quicker.