r/BackYardChickens

175K archived posts · Mar 2011 – Sep 2026

Raising Chickens or Other Poultry for Eggs, Meat, or as Pets

r/BackYardChickens

Interesting stuff for the small flock community and the humane big flock community.

Created Mar 20, 2011

944KMembers (last snapshot)

175KArchived posts

Sub Rules

No buying or selling in posts or comments. Do not post links to your own storefront or Amazon affiliate links. Users asking for links in merchandise spam posts will be considered bots and banned.
No AI generated images.
Use the NSFW tag (injuries, pictures of feces etc.)

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