Chickens

Every homesteader knows that a big part of taking care of animals, any animals, is cleaning up after them. That is certainly the case for chickens… Despite being very small and space-efficient, and very cheap, chickens can make one hell of a mess, and a big part of that mess is their poop. Chickens poop […]

The more commonplace anything is, the more likely we are to take it for granted. It can be food, art, and even animals. Especially animals! Livestock species like chickens are so commonplace that they barely get any attention and admiration as the amazing creatures that they are. In reality, chickens really are fascinating, inside and

If you’ve owned a flock of chickens for any length of time, it will only be a little while before you start learning chicken math and then making additions to your flock. Pretty soon, a small backyard flock becomes six, then 10, then 15, and then who knows how many after that… Chickens just take

With chickens, little squabbles over pecking order happen, but it’s usually nothing to get alarmed over. Yes, sometimes roosters will fight each other to establish dominance, but that’s just the way it is. But sometimes a chicken starts pecking at another and it won’t stop. It keeps on and on. And meanwhile, the victimized bird

When it comes to livestock, and that includes our chickens too, there’s always more to learn. Just when you think you have it all figured out or you know everything that you need to know, something comes up that will leave you scratching your head. One of these essential topics happens to be the digestive

You might have heard it said before that everything likes the taste of chicken. And I’ll tell you what, that old assertion is absolutely true! Pretty much every single carnivorous critter on this Earth can and will eat chickens under the right circumstances. Chickens aren’t at the very bottom of the food chain, but by

If you want to increase your flock size without having genetic challenges that have a negative impact on egg production, meat production, and physical appearance, you will need to know a bit about how to breed your chickens safely. You have three choices, inbreeding, line breeding, or outbreeding. Each has its own pros and cons,

Chickens might be taken for granted most of the time, but if you have a flock of your own you probably already know and appreciate how special and beautiful these birds really are. With plumage that can be every color of the rainbow, striking postures, and even different combs that lend each breed a unique

One of the best things about chickens is their versatility. They can provide us with both eggs and meat, and to that end there are many breeds that have been selectively developed to those ends. Today we have chickens that lay crazy amounts of eggs, and also huge birds that can provide us with loads

The hardest thing that any chicken lover will ever have to do is pick their favorite breed. There are so many domestic breeds out there, each with its own personalities, perks, and characteristics, that settling on that number one bird can be an excruciating process. But even if you aren’t picking your favorite, picking the