Mark Hudson

A well-cooked chicken means the meat has been pasteurized. The higher temperature is, the faster meat will be pasteurized. You can learn more about the Minium Pasteurization Times For Selected Meat Temperatures to make sure your chicken is well-done. However, their feathers quickly become water-logged, lose all insulating properties, and the chicken will die from … Read more

Signs Your Hen is Ready to Lay. Consider the Age of Your Chickens. Hens aren’t born ready to lay eggs from day one. How is your hen interacting with the rest of the flock? A few more things to look into are: she will start to explore the nesting area, look at the physical characteristics … Read more

Chickens enjoy all kinds of greens including grasses, leaves, plants etc. Fresh greens, tender grass clippings, table scraps, vegetables etc. are effective greens for your laying hens. Garlic or onions are strongly flavored vegetables. Avoid feeding your laying hens this types of vegetables because the flavor may transfer to their eggs. So, how to get … Read more

Chickens will go to bed when it gets dark. As long as there’s sun outside, the chickens will keep on playing. Most will turn in at sunset, ranging anywhere from 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, depending on the season and where you live in the United States. Getting the chickens to go to bed at … Read more

Yes, apples are just as good and healthy for chickens as they are for us. Most fruits are fine for chickens, and help to provide a wide range of minerals, vitamins, and other good nutrition. It’s always worth double-checking a fruit is safe first. But very few aren’t. Can chicken have apples? Yes, chickens can … Read more

So what i do is buy boneless, skinless chicken breasts and chop them up. Then bread them and shake them in sauce after. I’d say either pass up eating the wings or just go ahead and eat with the skin on the wings . It would be very tedious to remove the skin on the … Read more

Some chickens can and do fly ! Whether it is a wing flap, hop, or a full blown flight they can do it. However even those breeds that can fly will not win any Olympic medals for style or distance. Can You chicken glide at colossal crops? Anyone wondering how to complete the challenge can … Read more

Another sign that your chickens are too cold is hypothermia. This life threatening issue can set in if chickens get chilled and can’t properly warm themselves back up. It can happen when chickens get wet, maybe from standing outside in rain or snow, or if they’re exposed to a cold draft in the coop. Yet … Read more

Chickenpox usually goes away on its own, though the following methods can lessen the symptoms: Antiviral medications (works best if given within 24 hours of rash outbreak) Calamine lotion. Yet another query we ran across in our research was “How long does it take for chickenpox to go away?”. Someone with chickenpox is most infectious … Read more

A real chicken is a breed of chicken that can do well at what chickens are meant to do — lay eggs, produce meat — like a Dorking or Plymouth Rock. In fact, I remember poultry judge Bruno Bortner calling an especially nice Dorking “a real chicken,” meaning it would be productive without pampering. Listed … Read more