If you are anything like me and my family, you depend on your chickens to give you eggs on a regular basis. Any drastic changes to the environment around your chickens could affect how many...

If you're new to chicken-keeping, you might want to know what's good for your birds to eat. In Disney's classic, Cinderella, the animated chickens eat whole corn that's tossed right on the...

The first time we got chickens, we ended up with a bunch of Rhode Island Reds that my sister needed to rehome. We knew we wanted chickens and had inherited a great coop from some friends, but we...

Angry looking Salmonella-ridden eggs Most of us learn about Salmonella in elementary school, how it can make you sick if you eat raw cookie dough (because of the raw eggs) or if you cut...

In our family full of young boys, we have always loved having domesticated animals around the house.  Our cats love to be outside and occasionally we find them stalking around our chicken...

Do you want a pet chicken, but don't know where to start? Find out what it takes to have backyard chickens.