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Bird Flu 2022: What You Should Know

November 18, 2022 · Doug Ottinger · Feed & Health

Highly lethal and easily transmitted, this particular strain of influenza can cause severe illness, especially in chicken and turkey flocks. The resulting mortality losses can reach 75 to 100% within days.

How to Start Raising Chickens: Five Welfare Needs

October 25, 2019 · Tamsin Cooper · Chickens 101

Proper chicken husbandry means understanding what chickens need to be healthy. Learn how to start raising chickens with this lesson in chicken welfare.

Raising Goslings

March 27, 2023 · Kenny Coogan · Uncategorized

Add to Favorites Of the seven types of poultry listed, Dave Holderread only rates ducks and geese as “excellent” for both their raiseability and disease resistant in Storey’s Guide to …

Bringing New Chicks Home

March 16, 2023 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Chickens 101

Bringing home a new, peeping box with fluffy little chicks can be scary, but Elizabeth Mack has lots of excellent advice to help you.

Making Salt-Cured Quail Egg Yolks

March 13, 2023 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Eggs & Meat

Salt-cured egg yolks are the most delightful addition to any meal.

Waste Not, Want Not

March 13, 2023 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Eggs & Meat

How do you make the most out of your chicken flock? Matthew Wilkinson shares his thoughtful and practical perspective on the difficult task of processing your chickens.

Breed Profile: Magpie Duck

March 9, 2023 · Tamsin Cooper · Poultry 101

The Magpie duck has a distinctive, if variable, pied coloring that is hard to perfect. Nevertheless, they make excellent foragers and homestead companions, and are hardy, multi-purpose and lay large eggs.