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Learn how to incubate eggs with an incubator or a broody hen. Hatching eggs by incubating turkey eggs with chicken eggs or waterfowl is possible for mixed flocks.

We asked and you answered: Who has the best chicken wings in the Berkshires? Here are your top picks!

Chickens have been a lifelong hobby and more for Shirley Snidow.

This year is sure slipping away pretty fast. I was sitting here trying to think of a good story to write, and I thought one. I decided to write a

Saturday was moving up day in the henyard. The two-month old pullets, the young hens that had been confined to a small house and yard since leaving their brooder, were joining the old girls in the main yard. Since I had nothing better to do, I sat...

A laddered perch allows chickens to express their social hierarchy—a necessity that, when denied, can cause some unhealthy and destructive behavior.

Hatching eggs seems straightforward, and it's a fairly simple project—so long as you follow a few simple rules to ensure success.

If your hen keeps smashing eggs you hope you hatch, your girl may (for a few reasons) be just too young to serve as a broody. Here's why.

A lot of people are raising chickens on their own these days. Are these birds really all they're cracked up to be?

Hobby Farms Pecking Order Changes Can Present Problems For Keepers When changes occur in a flocks pecking order, it can create chaos in the coop. There are potential remedies, but sometimes the answer is elusive. 143 views PHOTO: Kirsten Bühne/Pexels My wife, Chris, and I’s Easter Egger hen, Frittata, just could not bear to have Carbonara anywhere near her. This was strange because Frittata is the smallest of our hens a...