We’re in the middle of winter. The winter solstice is always right around Dec. 22nd, which means the days are slowly getting longer already! Full of so much promise for gardeners like me. Not full of much else. It’s cold at night in January and February, that ‘ s true for most parts of the …
People are concerned about the average chicken lifespan for different reasons. If you are a commercial egg-producer, you may ask yourself, “How long do chickens live?,” in order to calculate how many eggs you can expect from a hen over her lifetime. Others have chickens, like myself, just because we love tending to them and …
Matilda was the oldest known chicken in the world living for more than 16 years. Matilda was born in Bessemer, Alabama, USA on Feb. 11, 1990. She was a Bantam, Red Pyle-colored, Old English Game hen. Her name was taken from the song Waltzing Matilda because of her habit of stepping from side to side …
There are many chicken breeds used for ornamentation purposes, such as the Cochin, Silkie, Araucana, Brahma, Houdan, and Sussex, to name a few. These are all beautiful birds, with rich colorful plumage. But all of them pale compared to the magnificence of the Polish Chicken, with their unique crested plumage around the head, and stunning …
We all know that fruits and vegetables are healthy for us. Cucumber is well known as a healthy, nutritious food for humans. But can chickens eat cucumbers and more importantly should they eat them? Let’s have a look. Is it safe for chickens to eat cucumber? Yes, it is safe. Chickens can eat cucumbers, cucumber …
A picture speaks a thousand words. So here are about 200 pictures of chicken tractors I have collected! No blueprints, no descriptions, just pictures. I hope they inspire your own project. A chicken tractor is basically a bottomless cage or pen of some kind. This is so the chickens can scratch (a chicken’s raison de etre) and eat off of the ground …
We’ve collected the chicken-keeping laws in the United States and put them on this page of TheCityChicken. We will help you find out the chicken laws in your city. ALABAMA Homewood, AL. A new stronger anti-chicken ordinance passed in March 2008. Any public nuisance that unreasonably annoys human beings, unsanitary conditions, offensive cackle, cruelty, etc …