Chicken

Chickens are undoubtedly sweet farm animals for any backyard. They’re widely kept for meat and egg production, although some breeds are raised primarily for showing purposes. But can they make good pet animals? Well, if that’s the question bothering you, you’re not alone. In fact, whether chickens can be good pets is one of the … Read more

There may be 34.4 billion chickens on earth today but only a fraction of these are heritage breeds. In fact, some heritage chicken breeds are so rare their numbers are in the hundreds. The numbers of many chicken breeds suffered a steep decline following the rise of hybrid broilers and layers and the industrialization of … Read more

Black is a popular color for backyard chickens. In the past, it was common for breeders to start with a black chicken for new breeds before developing other color variants. Today, there are breeds that are only composed of black chickens while others have one variant with solid black or mostly black plumage. A few … Read more

Did you know hens can lay eggs without roosters? It’s true! Hens don’t need male chickens to give you that flavourful eggs you enjoy. However, this only applies if you raise chickens for the sole purpose of egg production. But if you wish to increase your chicken population, you need to understand egg fertilization in … Read more

It can be unsettling to enter your coop to find one of your chicks or chickens with its neck twisted oddly and its head stuck at an unnatural angle. This is what the condition known as wry neck or torticollis does to chickens. Depending on the cause, wry neck in chickens may look more serious … Read more

Corn, or in Latin, Zea mays, also known as maize around the globe, is an icon of American culture that was already known to the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas. It is thought to have originated in Mexico or Central America, and evidence of corn cooking dates back more than 9,000 years. The Indians used it … Read more

Quiet is not a word we usually associate with chickens. Whether it’s roosters crowing or hens singing their egg songs, you can always expect some noise when you own chickens. A loud chicken may not matter if you live out in the country but in the suburbs or within the city, even a loud hen … Read more

In case you didn’t know, any article about tomatoes is required by law to state the fact that tomatoes are botanically considered a fruit and not a vegetable despite their not-so-sweet taste. How so? Well, fruit is a seed-bearing structure that develops from a fertilized flower, which is the case with tomatoes, while vegetables grow … Read more

The Prairie Bluebell Egger is a chicken that has been rising up the popularity charts in recent times. Its history only goes back to 2019, but the quality of its blue eggs has made it a must-have for many backyard farmers. Because it’s so new, a lot is yet to be established about the Prairie … Read more

Grab your device, and on your favorite browser, search for “the tastiest chicken breed”. If there’s one chicken reigning supreme on your Google search engine result pages, it has to be the Bresse chicken — and they’re just that! The Bresse, usually pronounced as a single syllable word without the “e” at the end, also … Read more