Articles by The Chickeneer

Knowing when your hen is broody: The first thing to do is to make sure that you have identified your hen as a broody correctly. Hens that are broody, or beginning to express broody behavior, you will notice, will stay in the nest box longer, and will puff up their feathers or growl when you...

Raising your chicks ~step by step~ Quick-Short Instructional Guide The first important aspect in a chickens like is when it hatches. Hatching, is a great obstacle a developing chick faces to come into the world. It is a very tiresome and exhausting process. The...

For a lot of us here at BYC, having just chickens just isn't enough. Most of us start off with chickens.....but chickens are like a gateway drug, because after having chickens for a while, you start getting into other, bigger, types of poultry. We may have other things like ducks, geese, guinea...

I have chickens, guineas, ducks, and geese that all live and range together. If you have read my article on how to keep different poultry types together, well this is just another page I made with some of my pictures, and advice. The Coop Well here is the coop, and their yard is behind it. I...

*This is my chicken page* This is my favorite hen, her name is star and she is about 6 months old, Ive been told her comb looks like it seems to change with every picture, she has a single comb. And she is some type of American Game hen, as are all my chickens you might see in the background...