Poultry Magic: Turning Eggs into Birds
If you’ve ever decided to, or even contemplated, taking on the task of hatching an egg, this Blog is for you. It’s Spring. The Robins are growing plump and the flowers are starting to bloom. Even the Rhubarb is almost…
Crazy about Bantam Chickens
“As a hazel-nut is to a walnut, a Brussels sprout to a cabbage, an Austin to a Cadillac – so is a Bantam to a regular chicken,” writes Eva Le Gallienne in Flossie and Bossie,her 1949 novel about two bantam…
Chicken breeds for broody hens
Natural incubation keeps a backyard flock going. The hen gets broody, the rooster does his job, she lays her eggs and sets on them, and 21 days later, she emerges with chirping chicks. A hen is broody when she insists…
From Placing an Order to Pick Up at the Post Office
“They arrive by mail?! Is that safe?” If you have never ordered chicks online before, you probably have lots of questions about how the process works, from placing your order to picking up your chicks at your local post office….
Broody Hens
A hen that is setting eggs or raising chicks is said to be broody. There is nothing inherently bad about broodiness, it is just a chicken doing what a chicken naturally does. However, there are lots of circumstances in which…
