Provide honeybees and other pollinators with a rich source of nectar and pollen nearly year-round by following these steps for your garden.
As a beginning beekeeper, you can choose from several hive design. Give some additional consideration to best home for your bees.
Show your love of poultry — and show your poultry some love — with rooster, hen and chic(k) décor as well as products to benefit your flock.
Chickens editors asked for photos, and readers sent them in. Here are the winners and honorable mentions in our annual contest.
Are you considering hatching your own chicks? Brief yourself on our trio of considerations before investing in your incubator.
This dual-purpose breed created from the Rhode Island Red is known for its tasty meat and for producing extra large brown eggs.
Fly-strike is among nature's most insidious afflictions. Here are ways to prevent your birds from getting it and how to react if they do.
Breeding goats has advantages in several market areas. We outline those and also provide one that should not be your prime motivation.
You can buy crickets at bait stores or pet-supply retailers, or you can grow your own. Here's what you need and how it works.
My family got chickens mostly for the eggs, but we've expanded our flock to include hens named after Disney princesses, too. Yep, I'm the crazy chicken lady.
Getting your birds off to a healthy start sets the stage for how they’ll lay for years to come. In the first of three parts, we tell you how to establish great laying hens.
Children can dream of various careers in agriculture, thanks to a big boost by Mattel Inc.'s best-known spokesmodel, Barbie.
