As a species, chickens tend to be quite lively. They spend a lot of time scurrying about for food. If you notice that your chicken seems to lack of energy, then it might be lethargic, which could indicate a serious problem. What is Lethargy? Like in humans, a lethargic chicken describes a chicken that lacks …
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 is built to accommodate their preferences, they should be able to sleep through the night and wake up …
Chickens can actually fly, but there are several surprising reasons why they don’t. Because modern domesticated chickens have large bodies and small wings, they are too heavy to get very high off the ground. Smaller chickens can and do fly short distances. The modern domesticated chicken is the result of 10,000 years of selective breeding. …
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 the presence of predators and or other threats, conversational noises include chatter between members of the same brood, reassuring noises are generally exchanged between mother hens and chicks, and …
Noises Chickens Make: 4 Categories and What They Mean Read More »
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 injuring each other to establish this. To get a handle on this pecking order, let’s look at the different types of pecking …
How to Stop Chickens from Pecking Each Other: 6 Ways Read More »
In this article, I’ll discuss some of my hard-learned best practices for catching chickens. It’s not difficult, but doing it right is important for the safety of the animal. The Best Case Chickens are easiest to catch when they’re hand-tame and bonded to you. This will make it easier to handle the chicken for medical …
The classic chatter from chickens is one of the most widely recognized sounds in the world, but what does it all mean? The constant clucking, cackling, and crowing is a form of language like most other noises, and while it can all seem a bit disorganized, it’s absolutely not meaningless. Like nearly every other form …
What Are Your Chickens Saying? (8 Vocabulary Clucks!) Read More »
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 can adapt to a varied diet. Whether your chickens are free range or barn raised, the wide variety of foods that they …
Do chickens pee? An odd question, yes, but an answer there must be. Interestingly enough, birds do not have a urinary bladder or external urethral opening (with the exception of the ostrich). A common myth regarding how chickens pee is that they urinate through their skin. The result of protein digestion in mammals is urea, …
