Chicken Raising Terms from B - M
Familiarize yourself with these terms to get a hold of chicken raising.
Bantam ? chicken variety that is about half the size of the standard breed of chickens. These breeds are usually bred for ornamental reasons.
Bedding ? can either be shavings of wood, haystack pile, or newspaper that are added [...]

Raising Chickens 101: Introducing the New Birds on the Block
To raise chickens, there are procedures and adaptations to attend to. One very good instance is introducing a group of ?new? birds to a flock of old birds. It?s like managing to merge two restaurants when one is Italian and the other is Chinese. Stress will [...]

The groups that chickens live in are called flocks Chickens are very social birds. But they are often aggressive toward each other.
They have a “pecking order” which is the order of the weakest bird to the strongest. Chickens dominate the weaker birds especially when they are competing for food or a nest.
Chickens are noisy like [...]

Chickens come in various colors, shapes, and sizes, but they have the same basic body structure.
First off, they all have a comb on top of their head and a wattle underneath their beak. Roosters usually have larger combs and wattles. All chickens also have two legs and two wings. They are all covered with feathers [...]