Follow my chicken scratches as I discuss the joys and the trials of raising chickens. I hope you will find this blog to be both educational and entertaining.
How it all Began
The story of how we came to be "chicken people"
Funtastic Fowl Fotos
Polish Crested
Buff Polish Rooster
White Crested Black Polish Rooster named Opie
Cham- Barnyard Variety Rooster
A New Arrival
Straight From the Nest
What to do with all those eggs- Delicious Egg Recipes
Eggs-cellent Egg Facts
Chicken Glossary
Brooder – a heated enclosure for keeping baby chicks warm during their first several weeks, until they can grow insulating feathers
Broody hen – a hen whose maternal hormones trigger her instinct to stop laying and hatch a clutch of eggs and care for the chicks that hatch out
Capon – neutered/castrated male chicken
Clutch – a group of eggs laid or incubated together
Cockerel – a male chicken under one year of age
Comb – the red-colored flesh on top of a chicken’s head
Coop – a cage or house for chickens
Crop – an expandable portion of the esophagus where food is stored before digestion
Fledge – to grow feathers
Hackles – the long, narrow feathers on the neck; sometimes collectively called a “cape”
Hen – a female chicken of egg-laying age, at least one year old
Incubator – a heat-regulated device for hatching fertile eggs
Litter – the absorbent bedding material, such as wood shavings, on the floor of a chicken house
Molt (also moult) – the annual period of time when chickens shed their feathers (can be triggered by hormones or stress
Primaries – the ten large, stiff flight feathers on each wing
Pullet –an immature female chicken, less than one year
old
Roost – a perch for resting and sleeping
Rooster – an adult, intact male chicken
Setting – sitting on eggs to hatch chicks
Sexing – determining gender of newly hatched chicks
Vent – the external opening, through which the chicken eliminates waste and lays eggs
Wattle – the red-colored flesh hanging from a chicken’s chin
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