The Urban Chicken Podcast - The Urbanite's Podcast Resource for Keeping Backyard Chickens

Predators are always a concern for chicken owners.  What may not be widely known amongst chicken keepers is that the risk of attack upon your flock may actually b…

Allegedly, it all began with the Coronation Sussex – a chicken variety developed to celebrate the coronation of King George.  In 2007 Florida Attorney,…

Like most people, I love to receive mail (so long as it is not a bill or junk).  Recently, I have gotten several messages from Urban Chicken Podcast listeners, who wrote to either pose a burning chic…

The Marans chicken breed is marvelously varied!  The untrained observer could see a Black Copper, a Blue, a Wheaten and a Cuckoo Marans and never r…

Frida Chicken turned up in the coop mostly naked and looking quite chilled a couple weeks ago – just before Christmas.  Wintertime in Boise,…

What do Andre “the Hawk” Dawson, Phil Collins (with his band Genesis), and Tony Albritton all have in common?  All three gentlemen were inducted into their respect…

It is always gratifying to get feedback and interaction from the Urban Chicken Podcast audience.  Recently, Carla Allen of Georgia email me and posed a few question…

Lee Lynn Thompson, owner and operator of Scratch A-Lot Farm has a lifetime of experience in raising chickens.  She and her husband have r…

The Kentucky Specks chicken is an American rare breed of chicken that is shrouded in much lore and mystery.  These small white and black mottled chickens …

Keeping you backyard flock of chickens healthy and safe requires more than just providing them clean water and food and secure housing.  One of the most important considerations for the conscientiou…

Everyone has anticipated something or some event in their life, only to find that reality and their imagination do not matc…

Eggs: they’re colorful; they’re delicious; and they’re supposed be the hard-shelled and oval.  However, sometimes they’re not shaped and formed as the…

Whether a chicken has a qualitative conscious state of being is surprisingly a matter up for debate.

Recently, a co-worker t…

Mercedes-Benz recently released a new commercial in which several chickens are rolled and moved about by anonymous human arms.  The point …

The Pacific Northwest Poultry Association is one of the largest poultry organizations west of the Mississippi River.  Commonly called the PNPA …

Ears and Eggs.  In chickens the two are oddly linked.  There is a general rule that the color of a chicken’s ear (actually it’s earlobes, since the ears ar…

Lisa Steele is the author of the wildly popular chicken related blog and Facebook page – Fresh Eggs Daily.  She shares practical techniques with her audience on how to …

So you have backyard chickens and they’re great.  They provide you fresh eggs daily; they eat bugs and weeds in your ya…

There are an estimated 900,000 black bears living in the wild throughout North America (USA+Canada). There is additionally an estimated 1,000 grizzly bears in the lo…

You are what you eat.  This adage also rings true indirectly – you are what your chickens eat as well, if you eat your birds or their eggs.  Studies …