99% of all eggs and chicks come from hatcheries, and they are no better than puppy mills. The parents and grandparents are bred and the...

Avocado, citrus, and uncooked beans are poisonous to chickens. Chickens rarely eat toxic plants. When they do eat something poisonous,...

Roosting is another basic behavior in chickens. They get together to sleep at night. And because they are quite vulnerable when they...

Sun-bathing is one of the essential chicken behaviors. You will see them laying on their sides in a warm and sunny spot with a leg and a...

A bantam eats an average of 0.5lb of feed during a week, a light breed eats 2lb, and a heavy breed 4lb. Of course, it depends on the...

Under normal condition (70°F), chickens drink twice as much as they eat by weight. This is typically 1 to 2 cups water per day. This...

The California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System (CAHFS) offers relatively cheap medical tests and diagnosis for chickens. ...

The body temperature of birds has more variability than mammals. The normal temperature of an adult chicken ranges between 105°F and...

Chickens sense of touch is very similar to ours. They have sensory nerve cells that enable them to feel pressure, touch, pain, heat and...

Chickens have only 350 to 500 taste buds, while we have 3,000 to 10,000 of them. They dislike strong flavors rather than having strong...

Chickens have a very well developed vision. They have double the sensitive visual cells on the retina compared to people which allow...