Making sure your chickens’ diet is right, is the difference between having happy hens laying lots of eggs and grumpy hens who will peck your finger off if you go near them!
We changed our chickens’ diet last year and were amazed when within a couple of days their egg laying had plummeted- so we’ve been researching about chickens’ diets ever since.
This internet is packed with lists of do’s… [Read More]
We all love to spoil our chickens with treats every now and then.
Giving treats to your chickens helps to give their diet some variation. It also helps to keep them happy and laying eggs.
If you’re not careful buying treats for your chickens can cost lots of money, that’s why most of our treats are normally kitchen scraps and left overs… In fact, 75% of the cost of keeping chickens is made up of… [Read More]
In December 2014 it was confirmed that bird flu (also known as Avian Influenza or HPAI H5) has spread to the US for the first time since 2004.
Since December more than 40 million turkeys and chickens have been killed due to the virus.
This is a very worrying time for many backyard chicken keepers with many people being unsure how to best care for their chickens during this time.
Today we have compiled all of the… [Read More]
The oldest chicken ever to have lived was called Matilda, and she was sixteen years old when she finally died.
Her life circumstances were not ‘average chicken’. She belonged to a pair of stage magicians who took great care of her. Also, she never laid any eggs! She had quite a luxurious life with minimal stress- she apparently enjoyed being a ‘stage chicken’, even appearing on the Jay Leno show!
Aside from exceptional birds like… [Read More]
After the industrialization of farming post World War 2, many people became disconnected from the land, food and rural agricultural life in general. Times and practices were changing from a slower rural life, to a faster more industrialized city life.
This movement towards greater production was needed in order to provide food for everyone on a daily basis.
This had been amply demonstrated with the rationing of eggs and other products in England and Europe… [Read More]