I love chickens. They are a beautiful bird that not only provides us with endless amounts of eggs and easy to cook, delicious meat, but they are a joy to own. Just to stop what you are doing and watch ...

Mystery of Blue and Green Eggs: We have grown up eating white eggs like any other normal person. Then, after some time, we were introduced to brown eggs or ‘desi eggs’, with the belief that they are ...

It turns out that not everything is perfect in our little chicken world: Henry, the Rhode Island Red rooster, isn't alone. A couple of weeks after the nine young chickens (three Rhode Island Red, ...

The sky may not be falling at the Heinrich hen house, but Henny Penny sure has caused egg-citement. Not once, but twice, this Araucana hen has laid a five-inch-long double egg - one egg inside another ...

My mother keeps chickens — a mixed flock of tawny Buff Orpingtons, black-and-white-feathered Barred Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and some rather histrionic long-necked Araucana hens from South America.

BEAR MEADOW APIARY, (413) 628-3970, Ashfield. Rick and Nancy Intres, owners. Sold at farmstands and Berkshire Organics. Fenced, naturally fed, local feed mix. Flock: 38 hens, two roosters, a mixture ...