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What’s wrong with my sick chicken?
If you are new to chicken keeping, you need to know what to watch out for. There is an impressive range of ailments that chickens can fall prey to, but you’ll be relieved to know that if you keep your...
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Chickens: problems and predators
Bullying, rats, parasites, predators, diseases… who’d be a chicken? Some books give so much space to lists of problems that you’d be forgiven for wondering why anyone bothers, but all that’s needed is...
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Using a chicken tractor or ark
For plots too small to allow a permanent run for chickens, an ark or chicken tractor provides a practical way to keep moving the chickens to fresh ground. Chicken tractors are sometimes recommended for...
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Chickens: equipment
Chickens are remarkably hardy and self-sufficient birds, and once you have them in their house there is very little else that you need for them apart from food and water. There are, though, a pieces of...
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Chicken feed
What you feed your chickens is vitally important to their health, as well as to the quality of their eggs – so, even if your chickens are ‘free-range’ birds, don’t think that just because they’re...
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How to store eggs: fresh home-laid and shop-bought eggs
Eggs from your own chickens store better than store-bought eggs, because the commercial washing process removes the natural antibacterial coating from the shell. Unwashed eggs keep better than washed...
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Buying or building a chicken house
There really isn’t anything mystical about chicken houses, despite the extravagant efforts that tend to get the advertising space in glossy magazines. They are not hard to build, but the market in...
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Store eggs for months at a time
Chickens lay fewer eggs over the winter, but you don’t have to rely on shop-bought eggs when the days are short: with a bit of old-fashioned know-how you can store eggs for months at a time. Freezing...
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The moult: why is my chicken losing her feathers?
Many novice chicken-keepers are horrified when their first chickens suddenly start to lose feathers, and think that there is something wrong with the birds. In fact, moulting is a perfectly natural...
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How to blow-dry a chicken
I know – trying to blow-dry a chicken is not something I’d attempt, either. But that would never discourage my wife Linda if she thinks it’s going to help. Basically, the problem was…chicken poo. Our...
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