Featured Stories
Taking Control – Breeding to Establish Traits You Want in a Backyard Flock
If there are desirable traits you want to reproduce in your home flock, remember that the best-laying hens are the ones that have the traits you like the best!
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Bethel Home Helping Hens
Add to Favorites Chickens ride a growing movement of animal therapy in care homes. These gentle, low-maintenance birds bring back memories of farms and simpler times. Kristina Reser-Jaynes watched a …
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Part Seven: The Nervous System
Add to Favorites Not unlike our own human body, the chicken’s body needs a control center with a communication network. The nervous system inside our Hank and Henrietta integrates and …
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Part Five: The Muscular System
Add to Favorites The muscular systems of our Hank and Henrietta must truly be considered “the meat” of the series on the biology of the chick-en. Muscles, whether labeled white meat …
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How to Find the Non-Laying Chickens in Your Flock
Learn how to identify the non-laying chickens in your flock through multiple methods and how you should deal with them.
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Dealing with Chicken Mortality
I often meet people who want their dog or cat to have a litter so the children can “experience the miracle of life.” I advise them to raise chickens instead so children can experience the miracle of life and the wonder of death.
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More Continental Poultry Breeds
Discover more Continental poultry breeds, including La Faverolles, Combattant du Nord, Gauloise, and Coucou de Flandres chicken breeds.
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The Endocrine System of a Chicken
The chicken endrocrine system is made up of a number of organs and major glands located throughout the bird that produce a special chemical messenger called a hormone.
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A Vocabulary List Built Just for Chicken Owners
For those new to the hobby or for veterans who want to brush up, here are the must have vocabulary words for a chicken owner.
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We Try To Put All the Poultry Clichés and Idioms in One Basket
Learn new and old poultry cliches and idioms used in language through the years.
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