Category Backyard Chickens

Most people are used to the wake-up calls of a rooster crowing in the early hours of the morning, while to other people, this sound can be the bane of their existence. But there is a lot more to a…

An essential part of keeping chickens is calculating how much feed your flock requires monthly. The amount of food that chickens eat each day is variable and depends on a range of factors, but for the sake of planning and…

Chicken coops come in a wide variety of designs and can be made from various materials. Some chicken owners go to great lengths to design elaborate structures for their chickens. They decorate the chicken coops in carefully chosen styles and…

If you have delved into the chicken world at all, you have probably come across an aggressive rooster at some stage. My current bantam cochin rooster has an aggressive side. Although roosters are small compared to people, they can still…

We all need a holiday sometimes but going away when you own chickens adds an extra layer of difficulty and responsibility. Unfortunately, there are no chicken boarding houses, such as there are for dogs, cats, or parrots. Chickens must be…

The first thing that should ease your mind is that chickens are diurnal birds; they sleep at night and are active during the day. So you don’t have to worry that one of your chickens woke up for a midnight…

Perhaps you have just entered the poultry world and bought your first clutch of chicks. You have a heat lamp, feed and water set up, but the baby chicks seem to chirp constantly. Sometimes they are very loud and insistent,…

Chickens are such an integral part of human society that it is hard to think of a time when they were not domesticated animals, living with humans to provide eggs and meat. Most chicken breeds have been dependent on humans…

There are enough reports of owners finding their chickens dead in swimming pools, ponds, and even large drinking basins to make it easy to assume that these birds cannot swim. But is this really true? Chickens are capable of floating…

Chickens are social birds and are naturally inquisitive. They use their beaks to explore in the same way we use our hands – pecking at objects in their surroundings or often at members of their flock. While hen pecking is…