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Top 5 most cold hardy chicken breeds
One of the most important things you can do when choosing which breeds you want for your flock is to choose breeds appropriate to your climate. With cold winter weather in the way for most of the US,...
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Four Important Feather Foot Concerns
Feather foot chickens: there’s just something about the magnificent feathered legs of breeds like cochins or silkies. Fancy feathered chickens in general—including those with crests, beards, tufts...
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Top 10 Hottest Chicken Trends of Spring 2015
Are you a watcher of chicken trends? Okay, maybe not. There aren’t many people who do that… but I’m one of the few. (Sometimes it does feel as if I’m a paparazzo hovering around the red carpet, just...
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Six Kid Favorite Bantams
When you’re looking for pet chickens for your family, don’t forget the bantam varieties. There are lots of kid favorite bantams! If high production egg laying is not your top priority, there is plenty...
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Fantasy World Poultry Tour
I’m ready to go on a fantasy world poultry tour. Why? I miss my chickens. I mean, technically, they’re still here. I’ve not stopped keeping chickens, of course. Nothing has happened to them. Nothing...
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8 Employee Favorite Chicken Breeds
As you probably know, what chicken breed works best for your family will depend on what you’re looking for, as well as where you’re located. For instance, if you live in Minnesota and want a hen that...
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Celebrity Lookalike Chickens
There are lots of Celebrity Lookalike Chickens out there. Everyone with Sultans, for instance, seems to have one named Lady Gaga–we think Silkies would be great Lady Gagas, too. Mae West is a common...
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Strangest Egg Color I’ve Ever Gotten
If you’ve kept chickens for any period of time, you’ve probably seen some unusual eggs. When hens first start laying their eggs may be quite small or even quite large double yolkers! They may be...
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Chicken Bloopers
Chickens are not always the most cooperative subjects to take pictures of, as we’ve discussed before. Sometimes, you get chicken bloopers. We wanted some great chicken pictures for our website of our...
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The 5 Best Points of the Orpington
I’m a Lavender Orpington, and my name is Hermione… although usually mom just calls me “Good girl!” There are lots of things my mom especially loves about me, so she wanted me to tell you about myself...
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4 ways to validate your chicken addiction
Crisp autumn air surrounded me as I went to feed the chickens this morning. Dried leaves crunched under my feet and the hens scratched for the last of the bugs trying to keep warm under the fall...
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Blue Combed Chicken Mystery
Recently I have been made aware that there is a fascinating “new” breed of chicken floating around the internet. No one knows what it is called, where it comes from, or where to get one. It would seem...
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Today’s Best Way to be Chicken Crazy
Are you chicken crazy? We are. First we’ll share some clues that will tell you whether you–or someone you know–is chicken crazy, too. And then we’ll tell you the BEST way to be chicken crazy today. You...
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3 ways to Choose Your Best Chicken Breed
If you’ve never kept backyard chickens before, you may wonder what the best way is to choose the best chicken breed for you. As we often explain, there is no One Best Breed for everyone. Some people...
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My 3 Favorite Chick Packs
My Pet Chicken recently started carrying Chick Packs, which are assortments of some of the rarest chicken breeds shipped for FREE! I jumped, leaped, and twirled a happy dance at the opportunity to...
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MPC Folks and Their Flocks of Chickens
Whether you are new to My Pet Chicken, new to chickens, a chicken breeder, or an old pro, you’re probably very interested to learn about the flocks of other people as soon as you hear someone say they...
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The First Favaucana Dozen
One of my goals with this year’s spring chick order was to add some color to my egg basket. Up until now, I’ve only had brown and cream egg layers. So the first bird on my wish list to help me...
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Cuckoo for Cuckoos – Cuckoo Bluebars, that is!
At my house, we recently had the privilege of hatching some of My Pet Chicken’s Cuckoo Bluebars, and what an experience it was! We have never ordered fertile eggs before, always hatching eggs from our...
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7 Reasons your Flock Needs a Giant Brahma
By now you’ve probably seen the viral videos of that giant brahma rooster strolling out of his tiny little coop. Millions of people have viewed the video of the “largest chicken in the world!” We know...
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