More and more people are keeping chickens as pets, only to discover they don’t know how to care for them. Kelly Rutkowski, managing director of Adopt a Bird Network, is hosting a free seminar on ...

When someone tells you where you stand in a pecking order, they are allocating you a place in a hierarchy. You may not be happy about it, but at least you know your place! Dominance hierarchies are ...

The term broody might not be an everyday word used in the average person’s vocabulary, but for anyone who owns chickens it is a well-known poultry tendency. Broodiness is a behavior a hen can exhibit ...

Nationality seems to make no difference at all. “Ga-ga-GAAK, ga-ga-GAAK” means the same thing to a Russian Orloff rooster, an Italian Leghorn, a Cornish cock or a New Hampshire Red. At the sound of ...

We're two years into the backyard chicken experiment and it's time to pause for reflection. I considered the first-year mark a real milestone, bittersweet with tragedy — we started with six chickens ...