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 ...

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 the last few months I had some rooster problems. Any peace was interrupted by four roosters crowing loudly and constantly. Two were in my chicken yard, and the other two operated in stereo at my ...

Every backyard bird flock has a unique dynamic and the phrase, “pecking order” could not be more suitable to describe the hierarchy that develops with chickens in a particular flock. Every flock has ...

In a rooster-peck-rooster world, rank has its privileges. The male at the peak of the pecking order almost always crows first in the morning, researchers say. After the top bird’s inaugural ...

From ancient times, people have been aware of the rooster's "cock-a-doodle-do" that marks the break of dawn, but has anyone wondered who crows first? In a new study, biologists have revealed that ...

Pecking Order welcomed guests Friday night.“I’m going to get my ass kicked tomorrow,” Kristine Subido said more than once as she greeted guests to her preview party on Friday, the last day before she ...

FORT PIERCE — A woman who told police she didn’t share her chicken was arrested after a flap with a cousin, an affidavit states. Fort Pierce police arrested Monique Alexa Hogan, 22, on Oct. 11 after ...

The Pecking Order opened on Sanibel in November%2C next to Subway on Tarpon Bay Road. The restaurant serves pressure-fried chicken and scratch-made sides. Squeeze bottles of homemade hot sauces and ...