Randy's Chicken Blog

Megan rushes from the coop to the house, grabs her phone from the kitchen counter and frantically taps a message to the local chicken forum, “Help!

Ten years ago, I started writing Randy’s Chicken Blog.

In my first year of keeping chickens, I had a Buff Orpington named Buffy.

If you visit Minneapolis as a tourist, you will probably make your way eventually to the Walker Art Center’s Sculpture Garden in search of the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry.

When I was a kid growing up on the farm, the rules were simple: if a pig or cow got sick, you called the vet.

And a rooster in a pear tree.

Once again, as I’ve done for any number of years, I’ve read a plethora of chicken-themed books, narrowed those books down to a few favorites, and penned a review of each.

I discovered Gail Damerow’s The Chicken Encyclopedia back when I first got the notion that I should get a few chickens.

It’s your first day at the new job.

Bird flu outbreaks in the U.S. come and go.

Sanshui, a medium sized city in China's southern coastal Guangdong province, is home to the region's Budweiser brewery and its Red Bull factory.

What’s up with the ridiculously high cost of eggs?

In a clearing in the woods by the school sits a strange apparatus that looks a lot like an old oven.

Minneapolis - April 1, 2025: Oliver Nelson felt he had found something significant when he first spotted the drawing under a stack of household items at a garage sale in Northeast Minneapolis in August of last year.

“Every bird is a personality…Any one bird…is absolutely distinct in character and in the manifestations of character from any other bird” —Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe “There are no two individual birds of any given species which, when living together, that…

Sulfur shelf mushrooms thrive in my woods and in forested areas across much of the United States and beyond.

This year, as always, I’ve read a whole stack of books with a chicken theme or connection.

There was this great practical joke my friends and I used to talk about when I was around seven.

Back in the days of old, when I got my first flock, there was a little fluffy white Silky roo.

Are chickens the closest living relative to T. rex?