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You didn't have to go to Chinatown in days gone by. When I grew up (now that would be revealing my age) the chickens and turkeys in the meat stores were all presented picked, whole, but with their heads wrapped in paper. It was up to the consumer to remove the entrails and anything else they...

I have some red jungle fowl. It is claimed that these are the basis for all the other breeds of chickens and I can easily believe it. I had a bantam (can't remember the breed) and also some polish that got mixed up with them before I had pens to keep them separate. The results were many very...

There are so many things that the uninformed believe about our food source that I wonder sometimes how the human race will survive. It's unbelievable how many people don't know where milk and eggs come from.

My grandfather had an angled platform under his roosts that slopped toward the wall, which in his case was an outsde wall. On that wall was a lift-up trap door. He could raise it and do all the cleaning with a hoe from outside the building. He actually had a similar set-up for feeding his...

I live in NE Alberta and belong to Alberta Chickens Website. It is a little smaller and easier to find what you want on it thjan the US one although I do like reading the response her.

When I build my fences, I make the out of stucco wire. Along the bottom I make and "L" out of a half of a roll of wire. 1/2 of this lays on the ground. The other half is tacked to the posts. If it doesn't lay flat until the grass grow up through and anchors it, tent pegs or some other hook...

Silky. Maybe crossed with something to get the coloring. I have a couple of large pullets close to that color that are a cross between dark brahma and black headed white polish. The grey body feathers are laced looking like the dark brahmas. They have the black heads but slightly smaller...

I haven't tried this myself but so many people around here are claiming that the best bedding for chickens is peat moss. The type you use on gardens. They say it eliminates smell and after it's first spread there's no dust. Also by mixing diatomaceous earth in it, you do away with lice and such...

Chickens have been a part of my life forever. Just a little story. When I was a kid, probably 8 or 9 years old (I'm now 78) we lived in the newly developing oilfields of southern Alberta. Everybody had free natural gas at that time because they just burnt it all off in the flares anyway.We had a...

I notice these entries are really old so do eople still subscribe to this website. I got a few lakenvelders from a lady in May but the coloring is not turning out the way I had hoped. Too much white in areas that I thought would be black. They are definitely the flightiest chicks I've had for...