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Breed Profile: Bresse Chicken

December 24, 2019 · Tamsin Cooper · Chickens 101

The Bresse chicken breed provides the best-tasting meat chickens in France due to its unique roots, lifestyle, and native geography.

How an Injured Chick Became My Pet Chicken

December 6, 2019 · Melissa Knight · Chickens 101

Add to Favorites Several years ago, when we were fairly new to owning backyard chickens, we had a small flock of six, but we were ready to expand. While at …

Blue and Black Australorp Chicken: A Prolific Egg Layer

December 3, 2019 · Countryside Contributor · Chickens 101

Black Australorps are beautiful additions to a backyard flock. These are prolific egg layers! Their black feathers become iridescent in the sun reflecting stunning blues and greens.

From Funny Chicken Videos to World Records, Backyard Poultry Have Become Ubiquitous

October 25, 2019 · Kenny Coogan · Chickens 101

Can you believe that 2019 marked the 30th year of the World Wide Web? As we enter 2020 and your resolutions begin to formulate, consider breaking your own poultry-related world record.

How to Start Raising Chickens: Five Welfare Needs

October 25, 2019 · Tamsin Cooper · Chickens 101

Proper chicken husbandry means understanding what chickens need to be healthy. Learn how to start raising chickens with this lesson in chicken welfare.

Belgian Bearded d’Uccle Chicken

October 5, 2019 · Countryside Editorial · Chickens 101

A real showstopper, the Belgian Bearded d’Uccle comes in a variety of colors and is often on the must-have list for poultry enthusiasts.

Download Our Free Poultry Guides

October 2, 2019 · Steph Merkle · Chickens 101

Need some support with your flock? Take a look in one of our helpful poultry guides!

Poet Wordsworth’s Chickens

October 1, 2019 · Susie Kearley · Chickens 101

William Wordsworth wrote about his hens in some of his poetry, observing hen parenting techniques and crediting them with “tenderness and love” towards their newborn chicks. Today, the hens that live at Wordsworth House and Garden are Orpingtons and Silkies.

Secret Life of Poultry: Our Old Place Farm

October 1, 2019 · Lacey Hughett · Chickens 101

Surprisingly, there isn’t as much information about disabilities in poultry as I’d imagined there’d be. It was while browsing the interwebs, searching for other similar stories as mine, where I encountered Lisa Johnson.