Articles by azygous

My early brooders Six years ago when I got my second batch of day-old baby chicks, I thought I had arrived at the ultimate solution for a...

Just as school officials often overlook the importance of dealing with the victim of bullying in a school situation, we chicken folk often neglect...

Diagnosing the crop disorder A hen is behaving lethargically, not eating much, if at all, but she has a full crop. This is the first sign...

On December 18, 2015, a friend and I embarked on a long trip of several hundred miles to pick up a two-year old Buff Orpington hen at an animal...

Each spring I see countless cries for help from people with a day-old baby chick who is terrorizing the other chicks in the brooder, pecking at...

The last thing any chicken keeper wants to see is a favorite hen standing helplessly in a nest box with a frightening prolapse hanging out of her...

Five years ago, just three weeks after bringing four new Speckled Sussex baby chicks home from the local feed store, I found one had suffered a...

Hi you all! I just discovered I had this page! Now I'll have to put stuff on it! More to come soon! I keep forgetting I have this space to post...

Around the beginning of summer, people are beginning to discover they have a newly minted cockerel in their flock. Often this comes as a surprise...