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How to help flighty hens(Post)
How to Help Flighty Hens By their very nature, chickens and poultry in general stress very easily. Changes to their environment, heat and cold, not enough water and the list goes on. But there i ...
How many eggs to incubate or hatch(Post)How many eggs should I hatch? The first question to ask when hatching chicken eggs is how many eggs to incubate. The answer is different depending whether you are incubating the eggs or se ...
Weird Eggs Explained(Post)Chicken Egg Problems - What's Gone Wrong? When you go out to collect the eggs and find something odd, it's no reason to worry. Although sometimes weird eggs indicate health problems, often a str ...
Do Chickens Get Lonely? Can You Keep Just One Chicken?(Post)Can you keep a single chicken by itself?Chickens are highly social animals. They evolved to live in flocks and are happiest when kept with other chickens. There are very few circumstances in which it ...
Why Guinea Fowl are the best pest control(Post)Why Guinea fowl are the best pest control If you have the room for Guinea fowl to roam around the chicken coop freely it's a great way of pest control. Guinea fowl are watchdogs around the chicke ...
Should you adopt a chicken?(Post)Adopting Chickens – Everything you need to know about rescue hensSo you’re thinking about getting chickens, or maybe adding to your flock?There are plenty of different ways that you can get chickens.
What you should not feed your Chickens(Post)What you should not feed your Chickens Chickens will peck at and eat just about any food you give them. Their natural curiosity will have them foraging around their coop for tasty morsels, pecking at ...
How to clip a chicken's wings(Post)Dine a Chook Wing clipping tutorial Some chickens are just natural Houdinis. It doesn't matter how high your fence is, they are completely determined to get out and destroy the garden. For m ...
Are my chickens too fat? This could be a problem (Post)Are my chickens too fat? This could be a problem It's important that your chickens are a healthy weight. Do they look overweight or bloated? You should ask yourself, Are my hens too fat? As ...
5 tips for choosing eggs to improve hatch rate(Post)Are you planning to incubate chicken eggs or set them under a broody hen? There are numerous factors that affect the fertility and hatchability of chicken eggs. You can read about the ...
How to trap a fox(Post)Fox problems in the chicken coop Part of being a good chicken owner is protecting your birds from predators like foxes. A well-built coop is part of the solution. But foxes are determ ...
Chicken Health(Page)Find all the answers you have been searching for to help care for the health and well being of your chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry. Scroll down to find the topic you are after. ...