Chickens 101
Rooster Behavior in Your Backyard Flock
Bruce and Elaine Ingram share their tips and tricks for understanding and managing rooster behavior.
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Breed Profile: Shamo Chicken
Part of our Breed Profile series, the Shamo Chicken is also known as a “gamefowl.”
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Breed Profile: Cubalaya Chicken
Part of our Breed Profile series, learn more about the Cubalaya chicken, a Cuban breed.
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Cooking with (Chicken) Gas
It’s time to look at how chicken manure can be used to make biogas, which can then heat a home or run a generator or even cook a meal.
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Breed Profile: Breda Chicken
The Breda chicken is a unique dual-purpose heritage breed from the Netherlands, with striking looks and adorable temperament. Recently, it has become an endangered rare breed.
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A Year-Round Chicken Care Calendar
This year-round chicken care calendar should help you know what to expect when starting your own flock.
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Incubation 101: Hatching Eggs is Fun and Easy
If you’re considering hatching your own flock of backyard chickens here’s a few things you need to know for hatching eggs successfully in an incubator.
For embryos to develop correctly, eggs need to be kept at the right temperature, turned often and correctly positioned.
Taking a Break with Chickens
At this time, in America, the Great Depression was in “full swing,” bringing many changes to our lives. Raising chickens might be an easy way of getting my hands on some money. How hard could raising chickens be?
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Twas the Night Before Christmas — Chickens Edition!
With apologies to Clement C. Moore. The following should prove to all the children out there that Santa visits good chickens, too.
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Andalusian Chickens and The Poultry Royalty of Spain
Andalusian chickens, Black Spanish chickens, and Minorca chickens all have a long and gloried history as the poultry royalty of Spain.
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