Encourage and enhance your children’s excitement about raising chickens by introducing them to reading through these picture books featuring their feathered friends.
Raccoons are common poultry predators. Here are tips on how to trap and handle these masked bandits eager to get at your flock.
A poacher, a peeler, a ring, a slide—I see how five new egg-related products perform when it comes to cooking, storing and preparation.
The Sebastopol is known for its beautiful feather pattern. It's a slightly smaller breed that's more friendly than some others.
A heatwave mixed with rain made our henhouses reek, which motivated me to test various treatments to control coop odor. See which won.
Some chicken breeds are better suited for hot or cold weather. Follow these tips to also protect birds built for high temperatures during the year's colder months.
U.K-based HenPower introduces seniors and dementia patients to chicken-keeping, giving them a brighter outlook on life.
If you have more chickens than you have space in your coop, don't arbitrarily divide your flock. Follow these three suggestions for happy results.
For hens, greatest egg production happens early and quickly. Farmers looking at the bottom line must eventually decide whether to keep nonproducing chickens that eat market profits.
A few treats keep your poultry happy and healthy, and they also provide entertainment. Here are some that work for ducks, geese and chickens.
Chickens are social animals with strict ranks, rules and codes of behavior. Follow these steps to safely introduce your juvenile birds to the rest of your flock.
The author, famous more than 100 years ago, gave advice on keeping chickens that remains relevant today.
