Chicken

You Can Take Steps to Prevent Food Poisoning. Place chicken in a disposable bag before putting it in your shopping cart or refrigerator to keep raw juices from getting onto other foods. Wash hands with warm, soapy water for 20 seconds before and after handling chicken. Do not wash raw chicken. Use a separate cutting … Read more

Chickens love to roost at night for safety. It is inbred in them and providing good sturdy perches that they can access for sleep is very important. With care and planning you should be able to provide them with enough roosting spots with a few to spare. Surprisingly they do not always use the same … Read more

Even the steam from your chicken soup is beneficial. “Steam can open up airways, making it easier to breathe. It also has a mild anti-inflammatory effect that can help relax your muscles and soothe the discomforts of cold symptoms, ” Allonen said. Rennard et al. ] Yet, chicken soup’s healing properties extends beyond mitigating the … Read more

Yes, chickens do have tongues. It’s an important part of their anatomy which they require in order to survive. Their tongue is very small and has a pointy tip. Why do chickens have tongue color? Tongue color varies from one breed of chicken to another but, as a rule, matches the rest of the inside … Read more

Yes, chickens will eat fire ants and it’s perfectly safe for them to do so. The problem is when ants are present in large numbers, they can do some serious harm to your chickens. Find out more here. Yet another question we ran across in our research was “Will chickens eat ants?”. The answer is … Read more

Undercooked chicken can pose some serious health risk, but pink chicken can still be safe to eat if it reaches the right temperature. Here’s what you need to know. Here’s the situation: your thermometer reads 165°, you’ve properly checked your chicken’s juices and let it rest, but when you cut into the meat still looks … Read more

You are right – chickens do NOT urinate through their skin. In fact, they don’t sweat either, since they don’t have sweat glands. The by-product of protein metabolism in mammals is urea, which is water soluble and released in the liquid we call urine. Do chickens Pee? Chickens do pee, yes. But not in the … Read more

Chickens DO lay eggs out of their anus! But, it’s not as bad as you think. The egg, poop and urine (which for a chicken isn’t a liquid) exits out of the same hole (aka, the vent, as you can see above). An egg-bound chicken cannot poop and pass their feces, which means those toxins … Read more

Chickens are not fed or injected with growth hormones, they just have naturally increased size over time. So when you see a label that has “No hormones added” or “hormone free” just remember that NO chicken, at all is hormone free, and no chickens have hormones added to them. There is no hormone injected in … Read more

It all depends. When I was a kid we had a game hen that would consistently raise two clutches a year. Most will only do one. On average, I’d guess most broodies will raise about 4 or 5 chicks to maturity, so you’d need about 5 or 6 hens to go broody each year. All … Read more