If you want to trim your chickens’ flight feathers do so as soon after they have become fully feathered. Before raising chickens, I never knew that a chicken could get off the ground — let alone fly. It wasn’t until my three pullets were around...
Don’t play chicken with deadly mosquitoborne West Nile Virus. By the end of a glorious California vacation, I had become a walking billboard for how to contract West Nile virus, but I didn’t know it yet. • outdoors in August or September,...
If you’re thinking of adding ducks to your menagerie, read this feature first! ll birds — including the captivating duck — possess adaptations that set them apart from most other backboned animals, or vertebrates. Of course, the unique...
When your hen stops laying eggs, play detective and figure out the culprit. hile there are many reasons to start keeping chickens, having a source of fresh eggs is usually at the top of everyone’s list. However, sometimes the eggs stop coming.
