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 ...

In more ways than one, chef Eric Huang’s fried chicken has been the hottest thing in town for roughly two years, and not only because of the heavy dose of Tianjin chilies he uses to season the bird.

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 ...

Gentle pecking of feathers where the recipient is calm and not reacting is a normal social behaviour of birds and should never worry anyone. But in situations where the pecking is more violent, and ...

Vent pecking and cannibalism are an ongoing concern for free-range egg producers. But what factors are causing them? Philip Clarke reviews a new study from Bristol University. Conventional wisdom ...