Chicken breeding

Explore the benefits of growing your own mealworms with our How to Grow Mealworms for Chickens guide! Find step-by-step instructions and answers to common questions, making it easy to provide a healthy, sustainable treat for your chickens. Start today and enhance your flock’s diet.

Learn how to begin your own Designer Chicken breeding project, how to price your best hens and how profitable this new trend can be:

Answers to the top questions about raising backyard chickens for eggs, including how much they cost, what you need in your chicken coop, and the best breeds.

Two terms you see a lot in this Rainbow Egging chicken world we live in are, “Easter Egger” and “Olive Egger”. These are catchy color terms for mixed breed chickens who can lay green eggs. The term Easter Egger has evolved to include any chicken who lays a non-typical egg color where the chicken that laid it doesn’t meet the standard of a documented breed. They are lovely mutts that have my heart, but those of us who breed for fun egg colors need to be diligent in labeling them as such…

What is the best chicken breed? That depends on your goals and your space. Continue reading for the 20 most popular chicken breeds.

Breeding chickens naturally using selective breeding for eggs and chicks, either to build up your own flock or to create a homestead income from your chickens, can be a great way to support yourself and

Learn about the different types of chickens. Find out which chickens are the best for eggs, for meat, and how they got to be domesticated