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So you are looking for a chicken that can pop out as many eggs as you can eat right? The bigger the better? So really you are asking what breed of chickens lay jumbo eggs right. Here’s the answer… Read more... What Breed of Chickens Lay Jumbo Eggs

Now you have your chickens, well… That’s only party of it. Like yourself, you need to be keeping chickens healthy as well. So where do you start you chicken lovers. Did you know that keeping healthy backyard chickens, result in a greater number of those delicious, organic eggs that you are scooping up from your hen house and putting proudly in your house for the next feast. By maintaining the health of your chickens inside your chicken coop, you are making a happy chicken. After all… No one wants unhappy chickens, when they are unhealthy, there can be many reasons for this. As an owner of backyard chickens, like any pet owner, you need to make sure that it is your responsibility to do everything necessary to keep your chickens healthy. The Importance of Keeping Chickens Healthy Since the health of your chickens will impact the quantity… Yes quantity of hen eggs you are getting. Would you want to lay an egg if you were not feelin...

If you live in the suburbs, owning chickens in the city is not the worst idea you could have. In fact, it’s a great idea. So if you’re thinking about getting into poultry production in your backyard there’s some good reasons to do it and there’s some bad reasons to do it. Owning Chickens in the City Why get Chickens? They provide you with manure for your vegetable garden They eat household food scraps They help in controlling insect in your garden You reduce the demand for the inhumane treatment of battery and barn raised chickens Chickens have great personalities The first thing I want you to consider is make sure that if you are especially within city limits. You should check your own city or municipal code to know that it’s allowed. Fund out from your local council what number of chickens you can have in your back yard. And whether or not you can have roosters because of the noise factor. Secondly check with your neighbors make sure they’re all ri...

That’s right! Have you ever seen a frizzle chicken? Can you actually believe that this ball of curly feathers is really a chicken at all. Let’s see… Frizzle Chicken with all those Curls When you thought you have seen everything, you then see a chicken that looks like it has spent the night perching with curlers in… You have not been watching your chickens, have you? Did you leave the front door open so that your chickens could get inside… Did they find the curlers and take them back to the hen house and use them during the night time… Yes… You go rub your eyes when you go down to the chicken coop in the morning to see these curly feathered chickens running around your chicken run. No… Seriously, if you want something different, now that you have got a chicken run full of a variety of different chicken breeds and also different chicken coloures. What about curly chicken feathers… Yes, you to can be the owner of a frizzle . Re...

What would your chickens tell you… When you come into their hen house carrying a bunch of edible goodies and their eyes start to bulge with excitement. One of the nicest reactions you are going to get from your chickens is when those treats for chickens become an obsession with your feathered friends running around the chicken run following you for their chicken treats. Read more... chciken treats

can chickens fly ? Really, you’re going to ask me this.. Well I better answer… Can Chickens Fly the Real Truth Can chickens fly hmmm. Let’s have a look at some history to give you the low-down on our not so tame chickens. Our backyard hens are of the noble descendants of a wild breed of chook called the grey or red Jungle Fowl, they have also been connected to dinosaurs, but I am a bit skeptical about this. I am sure that they have some connection to some dinosaurs but the majority I cannot see it. Anyway… These birds are still found in the wild in countries such as: Laos Myanmar Thailand Laos Far East In the wild, these jungle fowl not only perch in trees, but they also roost in trees. They have to be very adept at flying in the air to escape predators around them in the wild. In fact, I had the opportunity to see some in their wild state when I went over to Santoza island off Singapore when I lived there for a while. And they ...

If you have long periods of time that your laying hens are unproductive, meaning they stop laying eggs or only produce a few, looks like you may have molting in chickens time, and you may need to keep records and observe molt times for each chicken.  So how do you know when your chickens are molting… Well. Read more...