Regardless of whether a rooster is present, a single hen sits atop the female pecking order. Here’s how the behavior and balance play out.

Provide your flock with a natural protein block and form of activity via firewood. It can help them thrive during cold-weather months.

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.