In Episode 205 of Mother Earth News and Friends, Kenny Coogan chats with Heather Levin, longtime chicken-keeper and educator, about chicken combs. We start by answering the question “what is a chicken ...
The most common cause of blue or purplish combs in chickens is diseases. Any disease that causes pneumonia and reduces the level of oxygen in the blood will turn the comb bluish or purple. This is ...
It's one of the rarest breeds of chicken in the United States, and also one of the priciest — Greenfire Farms sells a single day-old chick for a whopping $199, and in 2013 aficionados of the unusual ...