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Egg Binding: What it is and how to prevent and treat it
Egg binding is a commonly cited problem on online forums, but what is this condition and how can you treat it? More importantly, how can you prevent it? Egg binding occurs when a hen has been strainin...
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How to Choose the Best Bedding for Your Chickens
There are many bedding options for your birds. Which one is best? ...
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Optimizing Your Chick Care: A Comprehensive Guide to Success
Learn a few basic tips to help your new chicks thrive. ...
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Getting the Brooder Ready for Baby Chicks
Learn what the most important components of a brooder are for raising baby chicks....
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Considering Chickens? Q&A Just for You!
This article provides answers to some common questions asked by people who are considering getting chickens......
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What To Know Before Building Your Own Chicken Coop
Are you looking to build a coop for your first flock of backyard chickens? This article has everything you need......
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Chickens in the Garden
Few foods are as appealing to a hungry chicken as a bunch of young lettuce or spinach sprouts poking through the spring soil. Given the chance, a few hens will quickly devour plants intended for their...
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Feeding Chicks and Layers Together
Bringing baby chicks home to add to your existing flock? Check out this video from Nutrena poultry expert... ...
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Feeding Grit and Oyster Shell to Chickens
In every feed store, you’ll find bags of grit and oyster shell near the chicken feed......
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How to Choose the Right Chicken for Your Family
As more and more suburbanites join the ranks of would-be homesteaders raising flocks of chickens in their backyards......
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Identifying Problems in Your Birds
For new chicken owners, identifying when a bird in their backyard flock is sick can be a challenge......
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Building a Chicken Coop: If You Build It, They Will Come
One of the most rewarding ways of creating perfect housing for a small flock of backyard chickens is building a chicken coop from scratch. Anyone with even modest carpentry experience will find coop c...
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Crafting a Chicken Ramada
Wise chicken keepers prepare their coop and run to be comfortable and safe during the July and August inferno. Keeping chickens cool during the hot months involves providing shade, water, and a breeze...
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DIY Chicken Coop: Build Your Coop with Scrap Lumber
Backyard flock owners tinker with their coop attempting to increase chicken comfort while making flock management easier. There's always need for lumber for a new pop hole door, roost, or angled board...
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Setting Up the Brooder
Do you have questions about setting up your brooder for baby chicks?......
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Kids & Chickens: Bathing Chickens and Other Adventures
Getting chickens tame and calm around young children. My kids (4 and 7) worked on this skill throughout the summer, and with the fair fast approaching on Labor Day weekend we realized we needed to g...
