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Ordering Fowl Online: Mail Order Birds
Nutrition From the Hatching Process The complexities of shipping live animals are always going to be difficult to overcome. Luckily, the United States Post Office has had decades of experience handling...
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Pick Out the Laying Hen
How do I tell if my hen is laying? The easiest answer is to catch the girl in the act. This may not be possible with larger flocks of laying hens. There are many signs that a hen has begun to lay eggs...
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How do Probiotics Work?
I had heard of probiotics before writing this article, just that they were in a lot of new yogurts I enjoy in the grocery store. Later I found that probiotics exist in all sorts of foods from grains to...
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A How-To Guide On Integrating New Birds to your Chicken or Poultry Flock
Combining chickens or waterfowl is a lot like combining families, it takes time and patience and is best done in stages. flocks have hierarchies known as “pecking orders” which allows each bird a...
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The Pros and Cons of a Fence-Free Flock
There is no shortage of information out there on the internet about keeping backyard chickens, ducks, and other poultry for your household to enjoy for eggs and other benefits. Many websites offer...
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Don’t Let Our Chickens go Extinct – Save a Heritage Breed
What is a Heritage Breed? We’ve all heard the saying “what’s old is new again.” This is as true in the chicken world as on the fashion runways. The chickens that turned over great-great-grandpa’s...
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Here Goes! Winter Hatching
Our 9 ½ year old rooster passed away. One of our rescued roosters succumbed to coccidiosis. Things were down at the coops. As any good chicken keeper we knew what to do to raise “spirits”- figuratively...
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Gardening is for the Birds: Hiring Ducks, Geese, Chickens and Guineas
With summer coming back from its winter vacation, we gardeners are getting rather excited. It’s time to get scratching in the dirt and those of us with feathers are ready to go! Chickens are the...
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Advice From the Vet!
Chicken folks up here in New England are pretty lucky. We have a readily available choice of people to offer professional care for our feathered roommates. Unfortunately, other poultry keepers do not...
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Summer Solutions for Poultry Pests and Heat
There’s a time in each year That we always hold dear, Good old summer time…(Tin Pan Alley, 1902) Flies…Flies! Time flies in the summer and so do other things. Bugs that take wing are an old timey...
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Uncommon Chicken Eggs and Laying Patterns in Your Flock
What is this weird egg!? Understanding miniature eggs and bloodspots, and when to be concerned. There really isn’t anything uncommon about uncommon looking eggs. Because of the biological demands that...
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Is Your Chicken Coop Winter Ready?
Despite tenacious attempts at denial and outright snubbing, winter is setting its GPS to our neighborhoods. If you live north of Zone 8 – you know what this means. Sigh. Time to winterize the garden,...
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