Chickens

Do you want to know how to sex a chicken? Hens and roosters play different but complementary roles in a flock and both have different physical characteristics. The trick is figuring out which is which before they grow up! Knowing how many hens and how many roosters you’ll wind up with is important for planning […]

If you’ve seen one chicken egg you’ve seen them all, right? White or brown, that’s it. Compared to the splendid array of colors on display with other birds’ eggs in nature, chicken eggs seem very plain. But, what if I told you that there were some chickens that laid blue eggs instead? It’s true! From

If you’ve ever seen a chicken take a dust bath, you know that it’s a pretty comical sight. But what you may not know is that there’s more to a dust bath than just chickens having some fun. In this post, we’ll explain what chickens are doing when they take dust baths, and why it’s

It’s a heartwarming scene: a baby chick, all alone in the world, pits its tiny body against the unyielding shell that protected it but that now stands between it and life on the outside. The little creature gives it all it has, using its tiny legs and beak to slowly chip away at the barrier.

Ask any longtime keeper of chickens and they will tell you: when the sun starts to get low in the sky, the flock heads home to roost. This means they head to their coop, most of the time, but every now and then you might have some chickens that decide to follow the call of

There are a lot of good reasons why you should keep a flock of chickens. Whether you want a small backyard flock in the middle of suburbia or a massive one on your rural homestead, either can keep you well stocked with fresh eggs and plenty of meat for relatively little care. Both are delicious

You bring your new baby chicks home and they are so cute. But have you thought about what you will feed them? It is important to know what to feed your baby chicks so that they grow up healthy and strong. Let’s take a look at what baby chicks eat and how to properly feed

Chickens, being omnivores, eat all kinds of things, including other creatures. High up on the list of a chicken’s favorite foods is a perfect, juicy, worm. That’s one of the reasons why they scratch around in the grass so much! How ironic then that it is the chickens that fall prey to worms more often.

Pretty much all chicken owners figure out quickly that their beloved chickens are highly omnivorous. They’ll eat fruits, vegetables, meat, bugs, and all sorts of things. In fact, some keepers even report that their chickens will eat chicken eggs, maybe even their own eggs! Is this okay? Can chickens eat raw eggs? Yes, chickens may

It seems like everything on earth loves to eat chickens. From wolves and coyotes, dogs and cats, even other birds in the form of hawks, owls, and eagles, and every kind of carnivorous animal in between. Turns out even the tiniest predators want a bite of our backyard birds, including insects, worms, and even nastier