An alarming story appeared on the Stuff website recently: Beware of backyard chickens , read the headline. In Auckland there have been two...

My dearest, oldest and most beautiful hen died last weekend. A black Orpington, she was the size of a smallish dog, with iridescent black fe...

Broody hens can drive you crazeeee! They're not doing anything 'wrong', of course, just trying to be good mothers. However, most...

All this spring rain makes for a muddy, horrible chicken pen, don't you find? I tipped stored autumn leaves and plenty of weeds into my ...

One of the first questions to come up when people decide to get chickens is "What kind of coop shall I get?" Here's ours, ...

How about these posters for the good old days, in the US at least.  They remind me of a fantastic vege gardening book I read last yea...

Welcome spring, and aren't you wet today? But the recent spell of sunny days has seen my chickens dust bathing regularly. I love watchin...