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The Best Plants for Bees and Other Pollinators
Recently we introduced you to 10 homesteading blogs that are shaping the way people are homesteading today. In honor of National Pollinator Week (June 20-26), coordinated by the Pollinator Partnership,...
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Broody in the Summer: The Egg Game We Didn’t Win
I’m done playing the egg game. A month ago, Foie Gras went broody. I knew hot weather was on the way, and I’d seen backyard chickens sit three months during the hottest part of the year. Since Foie...
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Khaki Campbell Duck Breed Spotlight
By Emma Paunil – Khaki Campbell ducks were bred in the early 1900s by Mrs. Adele Campbell, Uley, Gloucestershire, England. Mrs. Campbell created the Khaki Campbell duck with the intention to produce a...
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9 Food Preservation Methods for Your Harvest
There are many helpful homesteading blogs shaping the way people are homesteading today. Several of these influential bloggers regularly contribute to Countryside (lucky us!). As summer begins to fade...
View Article7 Egg Facts to Celebrate World Egg Day
Here at Backyard Poultry, we harbor a serious love for the protein-packed egg, especially when it comes from our own beloved backyard chickens, ducks or even guinea fowl. In celebration of World Egg...
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In Defense of Raising Backyard Chickens
By Mary Jane Fine, Connecticut A couple of years ago, Forbes magazine ran a story it titled, “Five Reasons Why Owning Backyard Chickens Is for the Birds.” Among the objections noted by author James...
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A Delicious Cooked, Nonalcoholic Eggnog Recipe
Fans of eggnog cheer when they see it decorating the dairy case during the last few months of the year. But after December it disappears again. Though we love the smooth, custardy sweetness, we may...
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Everything Worth Knowing About Chicken Eggs
“It was a brave man who first ate an oyster,” Jonathon Swift said, but the first person to eat an egg must have been even braver. Or very, very hungry. Imagine breaking open an egg, not knowing what...
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Poultry Talk — 12/1
Shade for Chickens? I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your magazine. My mother-in-law gets it, gives it to me, and I pass it on to another friend who has chickens. We all enjoy it. I’m...
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Hatching Duck Eggs
Hatching duck eggs is fun, and nothing beats the thrill of opening the incubator to find it full of bright eyed, curious, energetic creatures eager to get on with the business of life. Successfully...
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Chicken Breed Directory: Find the Right Breed for You
Our February/March 2017 Issue is NOW AVAILABLE, featuring the 2017 Chicken Breed Directory. Subscribe today! Nankins? Plymouth Rock? Rhode Island Reds? What chicken breed is right for you? Use this...
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Hatching Duck Eggs: When Fertile Eggs Don’t Hatch
I recently ventured into hatching duck eggs, an area that I had previously avoided ever since we started keeping ducks. Not only am I allowing Margarita our broody duck to sit on fertile eggs, I am...
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No Spring Chicken: The Case for Keeping an Older Hen
My oldest chicken is eight years old. She still manages to pop out a handful of eggs a year, but they’re usually wrinkled and a bit misshapen with thin shells. She certainly isn’t winning any awards...
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Do You Have Something To Crow About — April/May 2017
Backyard Poultry Writer in Zambia “While on a long Sunday drive out to a Zambian village, we passed this little girl, who was selling a chicken. We asked how much, and she said, ‘Two kwacha’...
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Raise a Basket Full of Colored Chicken Eggs
With Easter fast approaching, many of you will be turning your attention to dyeing eggs with your kids. But instead, what about raising a flock of backyard chickens that lay colored eggs for you — no...
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Examining Chicken Anatomy and Biology — Our First e-edition
We’ve got exciting news for all you Backyard Poultry readers out there! If you have a Web-Only or All-Access Backyard Poultry subscription, you now get six EXTRA e-editions a year, in addition to the...
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Spring Issue: How to Care for Baby Chicks
Our April/May 2017 Issue is NOW AVAILABLE, featuring great tips on how to care for baby chicks. Subscribe today! Learn how to care for baby chickens on their journey from the brooder to coop! This...
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Types of Ducks For Eggs, Meat and Pest Control
I’ve been raising various types of ducks alongside our chickens for years and have had ample opportunity to observe not only the interaction between the chickens and ducks, but also the differences...
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Silver Appleyard Duck Breed Spotlight
By Harvey Ussery – I’ve tried a number of duck breeds over the years, including Silver Appleyard ducks. I was always looking for my “true love” duck, sometimes keeping several breeds in a given season....
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How to Successfully Incubate Peahen Eggs
By Craig Hopkins – Indiana, United Peafowl Association. People who raise peafowl have several options to choose from when it comes to the incubation of peahen eggs. The peahen eggs can be incubated...
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