Pet Chicken Personalities - Get to Know Your Chook
All pet chicken keepers know that chooks have personalities. Hens are clever, cute and cheeky to boot. Once thought of as cluckin’ bird brains, studies...
5 Backyard Chicken Keeping Myths - Busted!
Considering keeping a fabulous flock of beautiful backyard chickens? You may have heard some nasty gossip that has put you off becoming a super cool...
Chicken Health - Is My Chicken Sick?
Even with the most attentive chicken keeping, one of your chooks will get sick sooner or later. It is important to be able to recognise...
Is My Chicken Broody?
Every once in a while, one of your chickens will get it in into her head to hatch some eggs. ‘But I don’t even have...
Making Sense Of Your Chickens Digestive Health
Having a basic understanding of a chicken’s intricate digestive system is very helpful when it comes to understanding their digestive health. Knowing what’s normal is...
The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Backyard Roosters
When we talk about keeping chooks, most people instantly think of the humble hen - clucking around her backyard in search of scratch, and dispensing...
The Only 2 Options for Dealing with Unwanted Roosters and Cockerels
Despite their fowl reputations, roosters can actually be a wonderful addition to a backyard flock, keeping a watchful eye over the other chooks as they...
The 4 Essential Tips for Keeping a Rooster in your Urban Backyard
Roosters are a contentious issue among backyard chicken keepers. On the one hand, these charming chaps can be a huge benefit in keeping your flock...
The quick-fire guide to treating mites and lice
Big things come in small packages; and for mites and lice, those big things mean big problems. These micro-monsters can wreak havoc on your flock,...
Can I Keep More Than One Chicken Breed in my Flock?
Keeping chickens is a wonderful adventure imprinted with a flap of activity, a medley of clucky conversations and an egg basket overflowing with fresh bounty....
5 Reasons To Love Araucana Chickens
Araucanas are eye-catching chickens that always leave an impression in or outside the coop. These uniquely feathered blue egg laying beauties sure know how to...
5 Reasons to Love Leghorn Chickens
Leghorn chickens are adventurous, spirited, friendly and wondrous egg-layers. First developed in Livorno (Italian for “Leghorn”) in Tuscany and brought to Britain in the late...
5 Reasons To Love Polish Chickens
Love may be blind but style has twenty-twenty vision and Polish chickens have exceptional senses when it comes to fashion! Beauty may only be only...
7 Reasons Why You Should Feed Your Chickens Mealworms
They may not look very appealing to you or me, but from a chickens point of view dried mealworms seem as tasty as a home...
9 Signs You Are Crazy About Chickens!
It's only natural to go a little loopy about chickens! They're cute, loving, cuddly and oh-so very sweet. Even if you think you're going a...
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