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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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The Chicken Digestive System and Immune System: An Important Partnership
How are your chicken's diet and their overall health connected? Overview of Immune System....
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Top 3 Poultry Myths – HENS
Let’s bust some myths on laying hens. The internet is filled with lots of information on hens, some are true some are opinions......
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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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Bringing Chickens to Your Backyard – Where to Start
Unlike cattle, sheep, or hogs unsuited for suburban life, chickens are the one farm animal that function well in a tiny backyard. They're small, relatively quiet, and can be raised in tiny coops that ...
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Backyard Chickens Launch Careers
Many parents build a backyard coop and stock it with a few hens as an interesting way to help their children learn responsibility by caring for animals and where food really comes from....
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Chicken Breeds, Hybrids, Crossbreeds…Just What Are They?
Anyone who enjoys keeping backyard chickens is truly fortunate but may be confused about chicken breeds. Never before has such a diversity of chicken types been available from hatcheries that produce ...
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Decreased Egg Production In Chickens: Molt and Winter Lighting
Molt is the natural cycle where birds lose feathers and gradually regrow their plumage. Molt usually occurs when the days start to shorten in late summer and it can go well into the fall season. The f...
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What’s in Chick Starter?
The golden crumble your new baby chicks are devouring these days was carefully formulated for their unique needs. Chick Starter. What's in it?...
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Can Chickens Smell and Taste?
Anyone tending a backyard flock quickly learns that chickens can be as picky about food as a crabby child. Put a pan of kitchen scraps into the run and hens enthusiastically devour bread, meat scraps,...
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A Diversity of Eggs
Delightful gifts that a hen gives the family caring for them are delicious eggs with shells of varied sizes, hues, and shapes. Some are speckled. Most are solid color. These gorgeous gems soon transit...
