Articles by Pinky

What Is The Pecking Order And Why Is It Important? Being lower in the pecking order than the black chest rooster, the lighter rooster left the hens as soon as the rooster higher in the pecking order arrived. The chicken is a social bird that enjoys...

How to Stop Egg Eating Chickens At one time,my chickens seemed to stop laying eggs for as long as a month.It was spring and the week before they were all laying well.I got at least two eggs a day.This worried me so I inspected the coop one day.I seen most of my hens go in for a while and come...

My Flock I love my flock.My flock started with two sex-links,a red sex-link and a black sex-link.Both were hens.They were shy to start with,but after two days,they trusted me well.This was the first time I ever had chickens and I never knew I could learn so much from the bird I loved to eat for...

Breed Details: Their eggs are thick shelled and harder to break than most chicken eggs. Pearl guinea fowl are valued as natural pest controllers. Many people raise them to help control the deer tick, which is a carrier of lyme disease. Their diet consists of various insects, including ticks...