Is My Hen Laying, Or Lying?
Is my hen laying, or lying? A legitimate question with an otherwise elusive answer. The obvious and unquestionably effective...
Category: Management
Keeping Chickens Laying In The Winter
Keeping chickens laying in the winter is a challenge many backyard flocks wrestle with. It’s not impossible, and theoretically...
Reading Feathers; What Plumage Can Tell Us
What Basic Observation Can Tell You About Your Birds Feathers are an important part of a chicken’s life, and...
Is it a Rooster? How to sex backyard chickens
I try to keep connected with the poultry community at large through Facebook, Twitter, and one of the most common...
Why Hens Stop Laying
One day you have a flock of hens merrily clucking away, producing farm-fresh eggs to beat the band. The...
Deep Littter: Clean Your Coop Once A Year
Over the years I’ve met many one-time backyard chicken keepers. I always try to understand what exactly caused them...
Dual Vs. Single, What Side Are You On?
Information paralysis is common among first-time backyard chicken keepers, and for good reason. Ask anyone who’s cracked open a...
How To Feed Chicks
Feeding programs can be simple or complicated, it all depends on the application. Large layer and grower operations buy...
To heat or not to heat, that is the question.
Recently I’ve been writing about safely heating backyard chicken coops. Since New England is buried under heaps of snow...
Top 5 backyard birds; the most Buck Buck for your Bucks.
So you’re starting a backyard flock and you’ve become enchanted by the catalogs. “Oh, look at that, and that,...