Organic chickens are not only the “in” thing that fetches a higher price on the market. It’s also a more humane way to raise your chickens and provides a number of benefits to the consumer, including: Organic chicken breasts are lower in calories and higher in protein More B vitamins, selenium and niacin No...
Arguments FOR Chickens In Cities: Keeping your own chickens is wholesome, inexpensive and empowering. Chickens are a sustainable way to provide eggs to families and neighbors. Roosters excluded, hens are actually quieter than barking dogs. Chicken droppings can make great fertilizer for communities. Backyard poultry reduces one’s carbon footprint, requiring less gas to get...
Genetic modifications of animals have received a lot of bad press, not to mention generated pandemonium-level fearfulness from the general public. But what if genetic modification is the key to preventing future epidemics like mad cow disease or bird flu?
It’s a farmer’s worst nightmare: the hens have stopped laying eggs during the winter months! Your first thoughts may be: Are they sick or dying? Has the cold rendered them infertile? Am I doing something wrong? Most likely, external stressors have affected hormone levels and got your top layers feeling down in the dumps.
Looking outside at those huddled up balls of feathers, it’s hard to imagine your chickens can stay warm in these frigid temperatures. Their beady black eyes are just slits in the face of the freezing gales of wind and they may pull one tough, weathered foot up into their breast for added warmth. But...
This topic may be basic for some but I think it makes a neat visual demonstration. An egg has two membranes. The inner membrane encases the white and yolk, the outer membrane lines the shell. When an egg is laid, it cools and a small air sac forms between the two membranes at the...
