Bruce Ingram

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.

Follow these tips to keep your chicks from piling in a corner of the brooder and smothering one another.

Here is the story in words and pictures of 4 chicks growing up, and our observations of raising chickens from egg to successfully mating in 23 weeks.