If you watch your chickens closely, after a while you will be able to learn their body language and know when they are happy, sad, broody, ill, scared, mad or…
Poultry
Draft-free, dry and warm shelter, along with proper feeding and taking steps to prevent frostbite, are important when caring for pet chickens in winter. Chickens are especially prone to frostbite…
Free-range chickens naturally eat many of the pests and weeds in your yard. They aren’t trained to do so; it’s their natural instinct. Chickens bought from a feed store are…
Chickens can be categorized as egg producers, meat producers or just hobby or show birds. The industry utilizes the Standard of Perfection list to rank and list chicken breeds. Most…
There are many chicken varieties, and all lay eggs, but only a handful are in the best egg-laying chicken breeds category. All female chickens will lay edible eggs with identical…
We at Uplandidaho.com have had a lot of requests from new hunters to describe how to clean game birds. Bird hunting doesn’t end with the retrieve; there is still work…
Chicken’s are becoming more and more popular in urban and suburban areas, many people find they don’t mind and even wish to encourage their chickens to become house pets. Although…
Making a chicken hutch is ideal if you are not going to raise more than one or two chickens at a time. Hutches are not complicated structures, but some woodworking…
Not all chickens lay eggs, and even egg-laying chickens only lay eggs when they reach maturity. Once female chickens, or hens, are mature, they can lay eggs almost every day,…