The nesting material in our chicken nesting boxes was getting raked out leading to dirty and cracked eggs, so this is how I fixed the problem. Also in this video, I show my latest experiment of trying ...

It's common to see chickens being kept in Australian backyards. They can deposit their eggs in long grass, around sheltered corners or behind mounds of soil — often anywhere except their fancy nesting ...

Chicken farms in the United States are large. Approximately 95 percent of all laying hens are raised on farms with more than 75,000 birds. Most of these hens reside in climate-controlled confinement ...

Producing clean table eggs from a flock raised in a deep litter system has always been a big challenge to most poultry farmers. It even becomes a tall order during the rainy season when the litter ...

Introduce laying boxes or nests early before the birds reach point of lay. My suggestion would be to bring them in at 12 weeks of age if they are mobile. An ideal situation is to have permanent boxes ...