Is It Ok To Eat Fertile Chicken Eggs?

“Dear Duncan, Thanks you for what you do we have learned so much from you and Wendy. Like a lot of your readers we are new with chickens as well. We have a few young hens and a rooster who we think is the coolest. We are worried about the rooster in the hen house…

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Watching What Your Chickens Consume

I had another question I planned to answer this week but received an e-mail today that I think takes precedence over my original plan. You see, we received word of a chicken that had died because it had apparently eaten a CD that was hung for it’s entertainment as per advice from me. My first…

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Does High Temperature Affect Egg Production?

“Hello Wendy, I have 5 hens that are all under 2 years of age and I used to get 3 or 4 eggs a day. Just recently only 2 eggs are being laid. I live in Queensland Australia and the weather is definitely warming up some days are 30 degrees Celsius and over. Does the…

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Caring For Your Flock Over The Holidays

I don’t know about you but around here things get awfully busy at Christmas time. Despite our best efforts to keep things simple each year, it gets hectic with the gift making, the get togethers, the church productions, the cookie baking, etc. I bring this up because of a situation we experienced recently, in the…

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