Egg eating is a seriously bad habit in chickens, and once it starts it can be hard to break. And, like broodiness, it can also spread throughout your entire flock. If a chicken sees one hen egg eating she’ll think she should do it too. So, why do chickens eat their eggs? And how do […]
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A broody chicken needs extra care when she’s on the nest. Learn more about how to care for a broody hen.
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What is sour crop in chickens? Sour crop is a condition where a chicken’s crop, which acts like a holding pouch for food, fails to empty regularly and yeast begins to grow. Here’s an example: you’ve picked up your chicken and suddenly smell a noxious odor coming out of her mouth. She’s also acting lethargic,
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What are the best chicken treats, you ask? Oh, what a fun question. There are few things more amusing around here than walking out the door with a bowl of food scraps. My hens know that when I’m carrying the white scrap bowl, it’s time for chicken treats. And, they start hustling! If you let
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If you’ve been raising baby chicks at home, you probably have a few questions relevant to your sanity, such as, “When can baby chicks go outside?” and, “When should I introduce new chickens to a flock ?” Heck, I love my chicks and my chickens. But after the third week of dancing around the enormous
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Are you weighing the pros and cons to keeping a rooster? If so, I know how you feel. We did the same thing on our homestead several months ago. If you’re thinking about keeping a rooster, you might be on the fence due to zoning or pre-dawn crowing. Or, you might so ready to hatch
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During summer, I focus on cool chickens. Here in Tennesse, it’s hot from May through October. And by “hot”, I mean, “HOT.” As in, you sweat just sitting on the back porch in the shade kind of hot. Although we can retreat into the air conditioning to cool down, our chickens can’t. And when the
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Free range chickens, and free range eggs, are all the rage these days. Everyone (myself included) loves to imagine a flock of fat and healthy hens wandering around, aimlessly walking wherever their little hearts would like to go and eating all those nefarious garden bugs we’re so busy trying to get rid of. Or, in
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If you purchased chicks in the spring, you’re probably starting to wonder, “When do chickens start laying eggs?” One of the most exciting aspects of raising chickens at home is waiting for the day they start laying eggs. It’s hard, I know. I was so frantic for our first flock to start laying eggs that
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No matter what you do or how well you take care of your birds, if you raise baby chicks at home long enough you’re going to wind up with a weak, sick, or injured chick. It happens. And you need to know what to do to save this sick chick. We ended up with a
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