Feeding Chickens? Stop Until You’ve Read These 5 Surprising Rules for Healthy Hens
Gone are the good ol’ days of farm kids walking around the chicken coop with a slop bucket, haphazardly throwing kitchen scraps at the hungry Read More
The 3 Best Chicken Coops for City Dwellers (BONUS: They’re Available Online!)
When you’re first getting started, we can guarantee you one thing: Your chicken coop is the most important supply you need to get. It’s your Read More
4 Best Incubators for Hatching Chicken Eggs
When it comes to starting your backyard chicken flock, you can either: Hatch fertile chicken eggs at home using an incubator Buy young chicks Buy Read More
Raising Chickens in Victoria BC? 4 Things You Need to Know Right Now
With backyard gardening, self-sustainable agriculture and local foods all the rage in Victoria, it’s no wonder that thousands of Victoria’s residents are flocking (pun intended) to Read More
4 Things Vancouverites Need to Know Before Raising Chickens
With backyard gardening, self-sustainable agriculture and local foods all the rage in Vancouver, it’s no wonder that thousands of Vancouverites are flocking (pun intended) to Read More
How to Protect Your Chickens with a DIY Electric Dog Fence
Backyard chickens are vulnerable to many different predators, and when you also have pet dogs, the threat can come from even closer to home. Raising Read More
Evaluating Egg-Laying Hens
Editor’s note: If you’re raising backyard chickens for eggs, you’ll notice that your hens will slowly stop laying eggs over time. In an effort to Read More
Raising Chickens: Broody Hens
The term “broody hen” basically means a hen who sits on her eggs for the purpose of hatching them. It doesn’t matter if the eggs Read More
What a Chicken’s Body and Internal Biological System Looks Like
Structure of a chicken, part one and two by Tokushi Tanaka, State and Area Poultry Specialist Structurally, birds are among the most highly specialized vertebrates. Read More
Preventing Upper Respiratory Fungal Infections in Your Chickens
Upper Respiratory Fungal Infections by K.J. Theodore of Shagbarkbantams.com Don’t count those unexplained occasional deaths unexplained deaths as routine… There’s a reason for most of Read More