I’m very interested in how to use chickens as tools for a better vegetable garden and how to simultaneously give them a better life with ple...

I recently shared a Stuff article about lead in NZ backyard eggs on the Keeping Chickens NZ Facebook page . Since then I've read plenty...

Actually, ignore the first part of that title - I don't need help. But my chickens are definitely fading. This is a normal part of age...

Most of us chicken keepers are keen to give our birds what they really, really want. Well, this is what chickens love to do: I lo...

It's easy to assume that when one hen pecks another, it's an aggressive act. "Ah, the pecking order," you might think, and...

This week I have three vigorous, healthy hens. Only one is giving me eggs, but these are only year-old birds, and I know that as the day...

Sometimes as I beat eggs I imagine an alien watching the process. Wouldn't he/she/it be amazed that a simple egg can be transformed into...