Chickens can sleep sitting down, curled up in a little ball, or stretched out on the ground with their legs and necks extended. No matter how your chickens may choose to sleep, so long as their coop...
Category: Behavior
Chickens actually can fly, but most are not very good at it. Because modern domesticated chickens have large bodies and small wings, they are too heavy to get very high off the ground. Smaller...
Chicken noises can generally be grouped into four categories—alarm noises, conversational noises, reassuring noises, and proclamation or assertive noises. Alarm noises include noises to signal for...
Flocks have a social hierarchy that is referred to as their “pecking order.” Chickens are always going to mildly peck each other to determine this order but the problem comes when they start...
Chickens are easiest to catch when they are hand-tame and bonded to you. This will make it easier to handle the chicken for medical needs or to round up the birds after a day of free-ranging in the...
The best thing about raising chickens is that chickens can eat just about anything. While there are certain foods that they have to avoid, for the most part, chickens are incredibly resilient and...