Affiliate Disclosure

Some pages on PoultryChickenFarming.org include affiliate links. If you buy through one, we may earn a small commission. Your price stays the same.

This page explains how that works and where we draw the lines.

The short version

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

When you click a product link and buy within the retailer’s time window, the retailer shares a small part of the sale with us. Nothing is added to what you pay.

Why the site uses them

Research, fact checking, writing, hosting, and software cost money. Commissions cover those costs, so the guides stay free, with no paywall and no pages buried in ads.

What a commission can’t buy

Coverage. No company can pay for a mention, a rating, or a spot on a list.

A better review. A higher commission earns no extra praise. When two feeders or waterers do the same job, the guide says which one the specifications favor.

Silence about problems. Every product write-up names real drawbacks. If something affects your birds’ safety, it’s in the guide, commission or not.

An early look. No brand or advertiser sees a guide before it’s published.

We don’t test equipment

We want to be clear about this, because many review sites aren’t.

Our product guides aren’t based on hands-on testing. Instead, we:

  • Read the manufacturer’s specifications, manuals, and safety information
  • Check sizes and capacities against extension figures for space, feeder room, and water
  • Look for patterns in verified buyer reviews, such as how a waterer handles freezing nights
  • Say which of those each point came from

When a guide says owners consistently report something, that’s exactly what it means.

Prescription drugs and vet-only feeds. Antibiotics and other products that need a veterinarian’s authorization belong with your veterinarian. We publish no doses anywhere on the site.

Equipment that skips basic safety. For example, heat lamps sold without a guard or a secure way to hang them, the kind extension services warn can start coop fires.

Products we can’t document. If a maker won’t say what something is made of or how big it is, we leave it out.

Matching gear to your flock

Gear that works for one flock can fail another. A feeder sized for chicks leaves adult birds short of room, and a coop sold “for 10 hens” may not give 10 hens the space extension services recommend.

So every equipment link says which birds and flock size it suits, in the same sentence as the link. Check that against your own flock before you buy.

How products are chosen

We start with the job you’re doing, such as brooding 25 chicks or watering a laying flock through winter, and then look for products that fit it.

Products with thin documentation, unclear materials, or very little buyer feedback are left out.

Mostly in equipment and housing guides: brooders, feeders, waterers, coops, incubators, fencing, and cleaning supplies.

Most pages have no affiliate links at all. Guides on farm types, contracts, rules, and flock health are there to answer a question, not to sell anything.

About prices

We don’t list prices. They change too often for a number in a guide to stay right, so you’ll see the current price at the retailer.

Equipment is usually the smaller cost anyway. Feed makes up about 70 percent of the cost of raising chickens, per UF/IFAS Extension.

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We never see your name, address, payment details, or what you bought. The retailer handles all of that under its own privacy policy. Our privacy policy covers what this site collects.

Questions

If you’d like to know why a product appears in a guide, write to editorial@poultrychickenfarming.org.

Last reviewed: 10/05/2026