
New York-based animal photographer Valerie Schaff reveals five key things you can do to take better pictures when photographing chickens.

Learn more about molting, the natural process in which a chicken sheds old feathers and grows new ones, by Chickens magazine editors.

What happens when a fattened steer is too fat? Learn about some of the health challenges that overweight cattle can suffer from.

In this final "honest truth" about popular poultry, we recount experiences keeping Rhode Island Red, Golden Comet, Barred Plymouth Rock and Serama chicken breeds.

Sarah Hock from the Washington-based homestead Cats and Cluckers tells us about the virtues of a life surrounded by poultry.

After a move to rural Tennessee, Alison Davis and her husband decided to get six layer hens—and their chicken flock just grew from there to include free-ranging chickens and even ducks.

Give your flock a job by setting up an egg CSA for feed funds, good food for your neighbors and food production education for those who want to know more.

Fall is a welcome break from summer's stressful conditions, so seize this opportunity to do some basic flock maintenance on your sheep to get them ready for breeding.

Want poultry but don't have the land for chickens? Quail are quiet, easy-keeping birds that you can raise for both eggs and meat.

The Chicks Next Door farm founder Annie Dye talks about her star rooster, Napolean, and the secret to the irresistible appeal of rainbow eggs.

Looking at four more popular chicken breeds, we discuss real-life experiences keeping Dutch Booted Bantams, Japanese Bantams, Polish and Marans.

Notebooks may be the proven way to track farm data, but you can manage your whole farm right from your phone with handy apps like these!