Last week a friend asked me to stop over and take a look at one of her hens. The poor thing had a full crop and it didn't seem to be goi...

Updated for 2025 How weird did 2022 get? There had not been very much activity in the world of bird flu over the last few years and suddenly...

I'm sure by now you've heard to quarantine new chickens before adding them to your existing flock, but what does that mean? How do y...

Today I want to talk about an issue that I have been dealing with in one of my hens. I noticed one day that this hens crop was much larger t...

I've previously talked about how it's important to wear a dust mask when cleaning the chicken coop. It can prevent birders lung and ...

Has one of your chickens ever just died? Like, there was nothing wrong earlier, she didn't seem sick and she didn't get hurt but the...

Lets recap what ya'll know about me real quick: I love chickens and I do everything as frugally as possible! Here's something you pr...

A few years back, here in Pennsylvania we had the 17-year cicada invasion. My chicken's couldn't be happier. The first time I saw a ...

Caring for a sick chicken can be tricky. You want to keep the chicken separated in case she's contagious and also so she doesn't ge...

As the weather warms up and the days get longer all the hens are starting to lay now. Once a hen starts laying eggs she may go broody and wa...

I was at the feed store today to pick up a specific feed for an experiment I'm doing. Since I'm looking for an unfamiliar product th...

This week I gave my chickens a scoby and I put a short video on instagram of a few of the hens eating it. I got some comments and messages ...

If you're like me, you took one look at the question above and said a resounding "No!"  People can't get chicken lice and ...

Last week I posted a recipe for easy suet cakes for chickens . One of the ingredients I used was  flax seeds. I received several emails aski...

Today's discussion comes to us courtesy of a friend who was going to get chickens but then changed her mind. In doing some research she ...

What do you feed a sick chicken? When a chicken is ill the food they eat needs to fuel their recovery. They need extra vitamins and nutrient...

People that raise chickens tend to spend a lot of time watching them. They're pretty entertaining after all! We even have a name for our...

Unfortunately I had a chick with cross beak hatch a few weeks ago. This has happened a few times over the years, but this is actually the fi...

As fall approaches, hens that are 2 years old or older slow down on egg production. Many farmers and homesteaders chose to cull old or unpro...

Coccidiosis is one of those diseases that strikes fear into the heart of even the most experienced chicken keeper. When contracted by chicks...