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Favaucanas: what your flock may be missing
Favaucanas. Boy, do I love them! … what, you’ve never heard of Favaucana chickens?!! I can’t believe it! This beautiful favaucana is named Juliet Just kidding. I’m not really surprised–naturally, you...
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Favaucanas – Great news!
Last week I told you about my Favaucanas. Favaucanas are half Salmon Faverolles and half Wheaten Ameraucana. We were a little surprised, to say the least, by the overwhelming positive reaction. There...
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Black Copper Marans: I admit it, I was WRONG.
If you keep a flock of pet chickens, you probably already know that Black Copper Marans are one of THE trendiest breeds right now. Everyone seems to want them. Aside from Penedesencas (which can be too...
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We’ve got the blues!
In May, I posted a teaser about some new breeds we were starting, and asked you all which breeds YOU wanted most to see us carry. I’m so happy to announce that some of those breeds are now available!...
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Chocolate Egg Layers: 5 Expert Tips for Planning Your Flock
Chocolate egg layers are chocolate egg layers, right? Wrong. Check out this photo: A deep chocolate brown egg from a Black Copper Marans pullet (left), contrasted with a dark brown speckled Welsummer...
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5 rules for keeping multiple roosters
Roosters can be a challenge sometimes. Don’t get me wrong–I love roosters! But they can be territorial and protective of what they regard as “their” hens. That’s part of their charm, of course, but...
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Choosing chicken breeds—a guilty pleasure?
Bearded chickens. When it comes to choosing chicken breeds, I go for beards. Why do I love them so much? Oh, yes. Now that I look at this Easter Egger, I remember why I love bearded chickens so much....
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Winter layers and Cold hardiness – NOT the same thing!
One of the mistakes I initially made years ago when choosing my chicken breeds was that I didn’t understand that there was a difference between cold hardy breeds and winter layers. To me, a breed that...
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Chicken breed identification: It’s all in the details
At My Pet Chicken, we get lots of questions from folks who would like assistance with chicken breed identification. We can often help… but sometimes we just aren’t given enough information to provide...
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My blind hen, Hildy
I’ve sort of hesitated writing about Hildy, my blind hen. Why? I get emotional about her. Of all the chickens I’ve had, she was one of my absolute favorites. She died a little more than a year ago. But...
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Microflock: Top 7 Pet Chicken Breed Choices
If you have a microflock—meaning an exceptionally small flock of three to five hens—you have to be selective with your breed choices if you want to be able to gather enough eggs to supply your family....
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Backyard Pet Chickens: 5 Tips for Beating the Heat
You can tell your backyard pet chickens are too hot when they hold their wings away from their bodies to help release heat; they may also pant with their beaks open to try to cool themselves off. But...
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The best chicken breed for your personality
People are always asking us which is the best chicken breed–which breed should they get? Of course, we have to explain that it all depends on what you’re looking for in a chicken! We often point them...
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Black Friday Flock
It’s that time of year! Baby chick ordering for 2014 has begun at My Pet Chicken. Before you leave for Black Friday shopping, you may want to reserve your Black Friday Flock. Some of the rarer breeds...
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Lissa’s Favaucanas – Good news and bad
We have some good and bad news about our Salmon and Blue Salmon Favaucanas. Juvenile Favaucanas are so pretty together! These are mostly blue salmon Favaucanas. We’ve had nearly 400 people (at the time...
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Top 2 ways to get “sold out” rare chicken breeds
When getting into pet chickens, one of the most common disappointments in the process happens even to people who have done all their homework and have done their best to prepare. They’ve checked their...
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The Art of Handfeeding Chickens
One question we often get asked by people planning for their first flock of backyard chickens is this: how do I get friendly birds? How do you train pet chickens to eat from your hand? In most cases,...
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Crested chickens – When to Ignore the Cons
Crested chickens: To keep, or not to keep? That is the question—whether ’tis nobler in the, er, flock to suffer the obscured vision of an outrageous crest, or to keep other breeds, and by consumer...
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Chicken Math – Blessing or Curse?
Chicken math: it’s sort of an inside joke with chicken keepers. It goes something like this:You get approval from your significant other to get just a small flock–maybe five chickens, tops! How do you...
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The #1 reason to raise chicks in the fall
Why is spring the traditional time to begin raising baby chicks? The main reason is that, in the past, chickens simply laid fewer eggs than they do today—and their top laying season was in the spring,...
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