Chickens

The addition of herbs to a human’s diet adds flavor and health benefits. Did you know that herbs can do the same for chickens? Many of these herbs are perennials allowing for a one-time investment of a recurring nutritional, medicinal, and immune-boosting food resource. Have you ever thought about growing herbs for your flock? Here …

As you’re preparing to hatch eggs this year, now is the time to plan out the feeding schedule and products you will need. To help you, we have put together an everything guide to feeding chicks.  There are several considerations when sorting through when, how much, and what to feed baby chicks.  Factors like medicated or unmedicated …

As a flock owner, several situations are unusual within a flock of chickens but none more than the hens eating their eggs. It can be so frustrating to enter your coop and find the eggs consumed in the nests and yellow yolk on the beaks of your hens.  What makes them do that?  How do …

Do you head to the store at Easter time to get the packaged dye to color your eggs?  Have you ever thought about dyeing your Easter eggs with all-natural dyes or household items to make your basket of eggs genuinely unique? Two Methods There are two schools of thought about the best way to dye your eggs …

Orpington chickens are the cuddle chickens of the coop! These fluffy birds are comfortable in the flock, as well as on your lap. Orpingtons have it all: the fluffy look, the eggstraordinary egg production, dual-purpose qualities, and a mothering disposition.  We’ve put together a quick and simple breed spotlight so you can get the facts …

A hen’s reproductive system is most impressive; however, hens can have egg issues.  Problems such as egg bound, vent prolapse, egg peritonitis, and egg drop syndrome can be not only painful but if not treated, may be fatal. Egg Bound When a hen is Egg Bound the egg is trapped in the oviduct usually between …