Raising Backyard Chickens
This Chick Knows Chickens!
Karen Krumenacher has been raising backyard chickens at her suburban home for over 20 years. Chickens are fun and friendly pets with personality! Not only are they easy and inexpensive to maintain, but having truly fresh eggs for your family is clucking awesome! Karen provides consulting on breed selection, coop building & upkeep, feed, chicken-friendly plantings, companions and more!
In addition to helping people raise backyard chickens, Royal Roost has a wide selection of chicken-themed gifts and apparel.
Let’s Get Clucking!
Karen Krumenacher
Proprietor & Mistress of Chickens
Located in Lake Country, west of Milwaukee, WI
Call 262-574-1096
Email Karen
Raising Backyard Chickens

This Chick Knows Chickens!
Karen Krumenacher has been raising backyard chickens at her suburban home for over 20 years. Chickens are fun and friendly pets with personality! Not only are they easy and inexpensive to maintain, but having truly fresh eggs for your family is clucking awesome! Karen provides consulting on breed selection, coop building & upkeep, feed, chicken-friendly plantings, companions and more!
In addition to helping people raise backyard chickens, Royal Roost has a wide selection of chicken-themed gifts and apparel.
Why Raise Backyard Chickens?
- They are fun and friendly pets with personality!
- Easy and inexpensive to maintain, when compared to most other pets
- A beautiful collection of living lawn ornaments
- Eggs that are fresh, healthy, great-tasting and nutritious
- Know what goes into the meat you eat
- Chemical-free bug and weed control
- Manufacture the world’s best fertilizer
- And so much more!
Take a look through our photo gallery to see what great family fun it is to raise your own backyard chickens, then contact Karen today to get started on a flock of your own. You’ll wonder why you waited so long!
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Royal Roost Shed: Now Open!
Royal Roost Shed NOW OPEN by appointment only or watch my Facebook page for opening weekends.
Come shop with the chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, barn kitties, our Border Collies: Fly & Rex, along with our goats!! Chicken loving apparel, accessories, books, bags, socks, hats, Special Shit Seasonings and more.
Royal Roost will be open:
- Saturday, November 20th 1 til 5
- Sunday, November 21st 1 til 4:30
- Sunday, November 28th noon til 4:30
- Saturday, December 4th 11 til 4:30
- Sunday, December 5th 11 til 4:30
The Faces of Lake Country: Karen Krumenacher
Featured in The Faces of Lake Country: Life is better with chickens, according to Karen Krumenacher, the ‘head hen’ of Royal Roost. Karen’s Pewaukee based small business offers services for those raising, or interested in raising backyard chickens. Living her dream through her business, Karen can be found doing chicken consults, designing and building custom coops, chicken check-ins, chicken chats, selling fowl apparel and decor, and renting royal roosts for those not fully committed to being a chicken tender.