Once you've treated an injured chicken with the antiseptic remedy, you can avoid wearing this deep-colored badge of honor.
Ancient remedies, such as lavender oil, rose oil and frankincense, can clean henhouse equipment and also treat certain skin irritations and injuries.
Here's a guide to buying or making inexpensive windows that will open and close to keep your chickens cooler during summer and warmer during winter.
Hens continue to lay longer than some people believe, and older hens play pivotal roles in a flock's hierarchy.
The move designed to promote responsible use of antibiotics for food-producing animals will affect your backyard flock.
Help your flock by knowing what creates stress and anxiety in chickens, including predators, laying, diet, weather and spatial concerns.
With some time and patience, you can train your birds to gather for dinner, eat from your hand, jump for treats or take a bike ride.
Whether we eat, sell or hatch our hens' fruitful efforts, our egg collecting is not worthwhile if the eggs crack or shatter.
To safeguard your own health, love your flock—from a distance. Here's why and what you can do.
This easy-to-make concoction can give a targeted boost of nutrients to your garden soil during the growing season.
Have you kept your love for all things chicken quiet or have you shouted it from the rooftops? Let this metric help you decide.
Ensure you go home from the feed store with the chicks you want by doing your research first.
