Back to basics chicken keeping

Cluckin mad about chickens.

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A selection of eggs from different poultry species all kept for their eggs

Which birds are farmed for their eggs

Chicks in a brooder with a red light and a heat lamp

Do chicks and baby chickens need a light at night?

Can you successfully incubate a craked egg like this one.

Will a cracked hatching egg survive incubation.

A broody barnevelder hen on a nest

7 ways to break broody hens and 6 ways to prevent broodies.

Chicks are cute but get sick easily and die quickly

Whats wrong with baby chicks that are sick, unwell or dying?

A selection of chickens eggs

Do the hens mind you take their eggs?

A flock of Pekin Bantams perching on a fence

Pekin Bantams.

A true bantam cockerel in a show cage

The True Bantams.

A flock of chickens being scatter fed with corn

Scatter feeding chickens

A breeding flock of barnevelder chickens eating sprouted grains

Sprouted grains for chickens with 17 types tested

2 hens fighting while a cockerel watches them

Why chickens fight and how to stop it.

A mixed age flock of chickens basking in the sunshine

How do you tell the age of chickens?

Mealworms just may well be illegal to feed to chickens

Why is it illegal to feed mealworms to chickens

A chicken with an encyclopedia

Dictionary of Poultry words and terminology

An incubator full of day old chicks

What percentage of chicken eggs will hatch

Defining pure or heritage breed chickens

What is a pure or heritage breed chicken

All about the complex genes of chickens

Chicken genetics, gene table and breeding

Pictures, video and measurements to show what is going on iside the egg during the 21 days of incubation

What is happening inside the egg during incubation?

One of my flock of red sex link chickens.

Red sex-linked chickens and how to breed them.

Do you need to deal with broody hens or can you just leave them

Do you have to break a broody hen?