Introduction
Whether you are thinking of starting your own backyard flock, or trying to determine how to price the eggs or meat from an established...
The intestinal tracts of all mammals (including humans) and birds have various types ofbacteria as part of their natural intestinal micro flora. There are...
Hannah Yang
Waseca, Minn.
Customer Heather Hilgart looks over baby chicks sitting under heat lamps in a cage at Egg|Plant Urban Farm Supply in St. Paul...
HPAI or avian flu never left the United States in 2022 like it did in 2015. So it’s likely that by the end of...
Tips for managing small flocks during the colder months.
Michigan State University Extension recognizes that cold weather management can be a challenge for even the...
Registration is now open for PIC's Raising Backyard Chickens Webinar. The session will be held on Saturday, March 25th from 10:00 am to 1:30 and...
Written by: Dr. Jacquie Jacob, University of Kentucky
NOTE: Coccidiostats (anticoccidial medications) are not allowed in organic poultry production.
Coccidiosis is a common disease of poultry caused...
Gary D. Butcher and Richard D. Miles
Intestinal parasites (worms) are very common in chickens in the backyard type poultry flocks. The presence of a...
Source: Cackle Hatchery
Molting is energy intensive. Chickens therefore don’t normally molt during times when they need dietary energy elsewhere. For example, in the spring...
Wild birds come into contact with backyard chicken flocks more frequently than people realize, creating a pathway for pathogens to transmit back and forth,...