Hen Up™ Articles

  • Three simple ways to help your ladies lay good eggs.

    By Hen Up™ Maybe you first decided to get hens so you could enjoy fresh, yard-to-table eggs every morning. But before too long, they clucked their...

  • Puffball Pointers, Part 2: Get your chicks off to a healthy start

    By Hen Up™ OK, so you’ve done all the work to get your brooder ready for your new backyard flock. (If not, be sure to read Part 1!). In mere days, ...

  • New Chicks in the Flock

    By Hen Up Organics We’ve all been there: Moving into a new neighborhood or starting at a new school. Everything’s weird and different, you don’t kn...

  • There’s no happy like hen happy: 5 signs of chicken contentment

    Here’s a Hen Up™ Fun Fact for you: There are roughly 30 distinct vocal sounds that chickens use to communicate with each other. Unfortunately, the...

  • How do your chickens grow? Six key stages of hen life.

    Us humans love to celebrate milestones in life: birthdays, graduations, weddings and anniversaries, children and grandchildren, retirement. While ...
    Posted in chickens, life stages

  • Puffball Pointers, Part 1: Get your brooder ready for new chicks

    By Hen Up™ In just 18 weeks, chicks go from freshly hatched chirpers to egg-layin’ ladies. But what happens in that time (and even before they arr...