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Keeping Bad Bugs at Bay - What Keeping Chickens Can Teach About Staying Safe From COVID-19
Some of the main recommended practices for keeping our flocks safe can, with a few modifications, be good guidelines for protecting ourselves from the marauding coronavirus.
Randy’s Chicken Blog is Four Years Old
Back in 2016 I sat down and started writing this blog. Four years and 176 posts later, I managed to get this cake…
In the Coop & Around the World – March 1, 2020
Paul the rooster slowly realizes that he’s the man.
Michel Perry’s “Montaigne in Barn Boots.”
And Randy’s Chicken Blog celebrates its 4th birthday!
Chicken in Love – A Book of Photographs by Moreno Monti and Matteo Tranchellini
Moreno Monti and Matteo Tranchellini, creators of the lush book of chicken photographs, “Chick!en,” have a new book! “Chicken in Love” is every bit as beautiful as the earlier book, and it’s all about love!
Alektorophobia - Fear the Chickens
Do you think of chickens as your feathered friends? Or do you consider them to be beady-eyed, sharp-beaked minions of evil? If the second sentence describes you, perhaps you have alektorophobia.
Black Soldier Fly Grubs - Feed Your Flock & Save the World
Black Soldier Fly grubs can reduce the emission of climate-changing greenhouse gases, help protect our overfished oceans, get rid of mountains of unwanted organic waste—and our chickens find them to be incredibly delicious!
In the Coop & Around the World – December 29, 2019
-A sad farewell to Emile the rooster
-Black soldier fly larvae—making the world a better place
-A fun new chicken book—“A Diamond in the Brush”
-A good-news update on Marissa the hen, suffering from water belly and cancer
My Favorite Chicken Reads
I like chickens. I also like books a lot. Unsurprisingly, I think chicken books are pretty great—the perfect marriage of two of my favorite things. Here are some thumbnail reviews of a few of my favorite chicken books. Full reviews of many of these books can be found elsewhere on my blog.
Holiday Gift Ideas for Your Chicken People and Your Chickens
Some gift ideas for your chickens or your friends and family members who love chickens. For the holidays or anytime!
Why is Marissa’s Belly So Bloated? Recognizing and Dealing with Ascites in Hens
Something was wrong with Marissa! Her belly was blown up like an over-inflated basketball, she had lost interest in all the usual chicken activities and she spent all of her time standing in a quiet corner looking sad. Did she have ascites? How could I tell for sure? And how could I make this sweet little hen feel better?
Betty the Easter Egger—Her Life
Run free, old chicken.
Chickens from Outer Space? The Strange Case of South American Chickens
Not only are South American chickens very strange birds, but they’ve been in South America way too long. When the Spanish first arrived in South America they noted the fact that there were already chickens there! People were keeping domestic chickens! Chickens, like cows, pigs, and sheep, are supposedly Old-World animals. So what were they doing in South America before the Old-World explorers/conquerors got there? How did they get there? Flying saucers, anybody?
Hen vs. Rooster - The Art, History, and Science of Sexing Chickens
Regardless, of whether we enjoy chickens through cracking open a dozen fresh pasture raised eggs, by digging into a box of fast-food fried chicken, or by tending our backyard pet chickens, we are all in collusion with an industry that kills half of the baby chicks as soon as they hatch because they’re roosters. Scientists have been working on a solution to this dilemma for a number of years and a real, practical solution may be near at hand.
The World Needs a Couple of Good Chicken Movies
Chicken movies: An idea whose time is undoubtedly near at hand, considering that there are all sorts of important Hollywood people who would not only advocate for a chicken movie but perhaps also be anxious to star in one. I’m ready to cash in and have put together a few great movie ideas.
Salmonella in Chickens – Why CDC Wants You to Stop Kissing Your Hens – And Why the CDC Suggestions Are Not Working
There’s an ongoing serious Salmonella outbreak occurring among folks who keep backyard chickens, and CDC’s best response is to continue to trot out essentially the same old list of impractical rules. Why is nobody working on eliminating Salmonella from chickens in general and backyard flocks in particular? In this post I suggest a strategy.
Hens in Cages: Not the Future of Farming
In this blog post, the author comes upon a blatant display of battery cage torture chambers in the FFA Building at the Minnesota State Fair.
In the Coop & Around the World - August 18, 2019
We went to beautiful and geologically unique southeastern Minnesota and found CHICKENS! Also, how long chickens live, chicken saddles, and the coolest chicken coop ever!
Curled Toe Paralysis in Chicks - Making Roz Right
This is the story of a lovable and tenacious Rhode Island Red chick named Roz, who entered this world crippled with curled toe paralysis—and then got better.
Cockfighting – The Cruel Blood Sport That's Been Around Since Chickens
What innate weirdness dwells in the human psyche that compels us to domesticate an animal just so we can watch it fight?