Chickens

Intensive Farming of Chickens Should Be Banned
Intensive Farming - Bad for You, Bad for Chickens
When Hoover promised a chicken in every pot, he set in motion today's methods of intensively rearing chickens in America and across the world. During the chicken's brief 39 day life, she exists in crowded, artificially lit conditions. Her life is one of pain, illness, and disease. When I learned a few years ago just how horrific the living conditions of battery and intensively reared hens was I made the decision to only buy free-range hens and eggs. If we are going to eat meat, we have a du...

Keeping hens in your garden
Fresh eggs from your garden
Keeping hens in your back garden is easy. They don't need as much space as you might think, and you don't need to keep a rooster. Just provide them with shelter, food and fresh water and they'll make great pets and provide fresh eggs for the kitchen. Chickens will even eat slugs and snails for you (and spiders and centipedes and all kinds of garden pests). They'll keep you company when you're working in the yard and chicken manure makes a great fertilizer for your plants, or a compost activa...

Why You Need a {Small} Flock of Chickens
What's So Great About Having Chickens?
You're probably thinking that the only thing a flock of chickens, even a SMALL flock, could possibly add to your life, would be more WORK. Well, I'm writing this lens to prove to you how wrong you would be in making that assumption. Not only is having your own flock not going to be that much work on your part, but your chickens are going to provide you with the most delicious eggs you've ever eaten in your entire life, not to mention they have some entertainment value also. The chickens tha...

Gifts for Chicken Lovers and Collectors
Great Gifts for Chicken Lovers
Are you a chicken collector? Do you or someone you know have chicken stuff all over the house? Whether you are a beginning collector or a more "advanced" chicken lover, you'll find all kinds of quirky chicken gifts and funky chicken facts here on this page. I hope you'll enjoy browsing this oddball collection of funny chicken themed gifts and apparel. Purchase a Polkadot Hen at AllPosters

Cochin Bantam Chicken
A distinctive feature of the Cochin is the excessive plumage that covers leg and foot.
"Our Pet Cochin to the left" Colour varieties include buff, black, partridge, blue, silver laced, splash, golden laced, and white. Cochins also come in a variety called frizzled, in which the feathers are turned outward. Cochins are well known as good mothers, even as foster mothers for other breeds, and they can lay many eggs, but usually not for extended periods of time.

Addicted to Chickens
Chickens As Pets
If anyone had told me in the past that one day I'd have chickens for pets, I would have told them they were crazy! Little did I know that I would soon have 35 chickens, and names for all of them! There is nothing more enjoyable than watching them wandering about the lawn, especially in summer. If you're lucky, they might jump in your lap so you can pet them!

Ornamental Chicken Breeds
There's a chicken that's right for you.
The purpose of this lens is to help you identify a chicken that's right for you, and to introduce you to a lot of beautiful, fascinating birds. If you are looking for the perfect bird for your flock, that's great; but you may also enjoy just looking at the array of wonderful birds we've found. Unfortunately, we haven't found pictures of all these exotic birds yet, but as we find pictures, we'll add them in for you.

How to Hatch Eggs
How to Hatch Eggs? It's not too hard with the right stuff!
Well, in today's economy we have to do what we can to save money and make ends meet! Raising your own chickens is one way if you can, and it really doesn't take much to do, just watch and wait! A lot of cities will let you keep a few chickens now, and of course if you're in the country, no problem if you have an enclosure to put them! You can buy chicks, and that's a great first time way to start with chickens, but once you get that first flock started, and you have noisy and active a rooster...

(True) Chicken Stories
Chickens!
I never dreamed chickens were interesting until we moved to Spain and our neighbour insisted that we should get some. How could I know that we'd be charmed by our chickens, and end up selling eggs to the villagers? This lens is about our story, and I'm hoping you'll give me YOUR stories for a future book I have planned. I hope you'll agree how endearing chickens are, enjoy the chicken stories and if you could share any chicken experiences of your own - that would be amazing!

Gifts for People who Raise Chickens
Best Chicken Themed Gift Ideas for Chicken Farmers!
Do you know someone who owns a chicken flock? Or just loves chickens? Here are my favorite gift ideas for chicken ranchers. These gifts range from the practical to the funny, and many of them are decorative and oh so pretty! So here's some great jewelry, clothing, ornaments, and more, featuring roosters and hens! Whether you are buying a Christmas gift, birthday gift, or gift for any other occasion, perhaps an idea on this page will feel "just right" for that special person who is raising ch...