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poultryOne recommends the following books to read BEFORE starting your poultry breeding project…

Storey’s Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds

The Mating and Breeding of Poultry

Genetics of the Fowl: The Classic Guide to Chicken Genetics and …

Thinking of breeding chickens on your small farm? There has never been a better time to do it!

Keeping back yard chickens has become a massive movement sweeping through cities and suburbs from the UK and USA to Australia.

Food security and frugality has people turning in droves to raising chickens in the city.

And why not?

Hens are the ideal, low maintenance pet that is cheap …

So, you need info on starting to raise chickens. And you have the roost all set up and ready for the new inhabitants to move on in. You want to be totally sure that everything is ready when they arrive otherwise there could be utter chaos as you try and get them organized and situated.

Once the baby chickens arrive you will want to examine them extremely well. If they arrive diseased or in …

Chickens have got to be the easiest, most forgiving, creatures for a small farm to manage. While any book you pick up on chickens would have you believe that they can suffer from any number of perfectly horrible parasites and problems, the fact is… there’s nothing to them. They’ll call the …

Sexing Chicks in the Backyard FlockBy R. Keith Bramwell, Extension Poultry Specialist for the University of Arkansas’s Avian Advice – This article looks at accurate methods of determining the sex of baby chicks.Sexing Chicks in the Backyard Flock – By R. Keith Bramwell, Extension Poultry Specialist for the University of Arkansas’s Avian Advice – This article looks at accurate methods …

Here’s a follow-up to an earlier blog entry on cockfighting. As reported the only state in the Union where cockfighting is still legal is in Louisiana, which gleaning from an observation from an unhappy breeder himself may eventually change in the near future. But the southern neighbors, the Mexicans, are quite steeped in its practice, are now more attuned to and conversant with it, and …

When it comes to their favorite fowl, you might say Danny Eiland and Glen Cryar are birds of a feather.

For Eiland, its Red Rangers, Johnny Grays, Golden Nuggets and those unforgettable Naked Necks.

For Cryar, its Buff-Laced Old English, White-Crested Black Polish, White-Crested Cuckoo and those long-legged Modern English Games.

Yet, no matter what the breed or variety, one thing is …

For backyard chicken raisers to be, it is important to note that there are chickens and there are chickens of varying breeds from which they can choose from to be suitable for their backyard chicken raising venture.

They can have a choice from hundreds of domesticated chicken breeds all over the world. These breeds have well-defined physical and behavioral characteristics brought about by …

Admittedly, The Omlet Eglu is a very cool-looking, functional, ingenious design for an urban chicken coop.

Of course I want one, but that’s besides the point. When you do the math paying for one just doesn’t make any sense… And besides that, is buying more plastic “stuff” really the answer we’re looking for?

The national average for a dozen eggs is $2.17 according to the …

Aug 13, 2009Healey Lockett

Chicken raising has come off the farm and into the city. Now more than ever, people are raising chickens in their backyard for eggs and meat. Some may hesitate to attempt keeping chickens, believing them difficult to care for. Nothing could be further from the truth! A little common sense, research and planning before you bring home that first cute, fluffy baby …