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Okay Chicken Peeps, If your like me and try chickening from an organic or sustainable approach you have probably come along Diatomaceous Earth and its suggestions for use in and around the coop for controlling various insect populations. I pride myself on running a clean coop and just...

Hola fellow Chickenologists, This will be my first year raising birds end of this month and after first defeating an outbreak of dry fowl pox mother nature as decided to test my resolve yet again with a mite infestation and we have had over a foot of rain in the last three weeks (Jax, FL) My...

6 Months into my first chicken raising experiment and today I noticed some lesions on two of my RIR's.... I double checked and was able to confirm that it is the dry fowl pox...I went to the Chicken Chicks website and read up on what to do but wanted some more feedback..I have 22 ladies 16 RIR's...

I've got 6 Jersey Girls and 16 RIR's and egg production is starting a tad earlier (19 weeks) than expected but that's awesome for me as this is my first Chicken Rodeo! I know first eggs are smallish and sporadic but my Hilton Hotel Five Star Metal nesting box Hotel that's got fresh bedding and...

Well I've been a horticulturalist for 30 years and decided to try growing chickens...I have 16 RIR and 6 Jersey Giants all layers...the Jerseys are super sweet but I've been reading reading people saying in takes 20 weeks plus to get the first egg...so being 19 weeks I wasn't planning on...