When someone tells you where you stand in a pecking order, they are allocating you a place in a hierarchy. You may not be happy about it, but at least you know your place! Dominance hierarchies are ...

If you don’t have your own backyard flock, you may not believe that the chicken pecking order is real, let alone that it’s even more complicated than we give it credit for. Chickens are one of ...

As soon as I planned my move from New York City to Portland, Oregon, I knew a flock was in my future. I bought my first chickens online in 2018. The “ladies,” as I’d come to call them, hatched at a ...