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Bird Flu 2022: What You Should Know
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.
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How to Start Raising Chickens: Five Welfare Needs
Proper chicken husbandry means understanding what chickens need to be healthy. Learn how to start raising chickens with this lesson in chicken welfare.
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Rooster Behavior in Your Backyard Flock
Bruce and Elaine Ingram share their tips and tricks for understanding and managing rooster behavior.
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Breed Profile: Shamo Chicken
Part of our Breed Profile series, the Shamo Chicken is also known as a “gamefowl.”
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Breed Profile: Cubalaya Chicken
Part of our Breed Profile series, learn more about the Cubalaya chicken, a Cuban breed.
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Unexpected Eggshell Color Variance
Add to Favorites Story and photos by Krislee Johnson While in the coop doing my morning chores I was met with an unusual surprise. An unfamiliar colored egg had found …
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Abnormal Chicken Eggs
Ever wonder why eggshells have odd bumps or discolorations? Learn how eggs develop and troubleshoot abnormal eggs with chicken owner and writer Elizabeth Diane Mack.
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How to Make Chicken Sausage
A guide to making chicken sausage from processing to smoking the sausage, and tips and recipes for everything in-between.
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Homemade Chicken and Poultry Sausage
Here are the tips and tricks for composing a delicious chicken or poultry sausage that you can adapt to accommodate any species of fowl and any flavor combination you can dream.
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Cooking With All Parts of a Chicken
From beak to claw — recipes that use all parts of the chicken, from skin and fat to liver and gizzards.
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Raising Pheasants from Chicks to Maturity
If you’re interested in raising pheasants, this primer can get you started on what you need to know and prepare.
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An Education on the Pheasant Business
Want to raise pheasants, help with their conservation, or simply learn more about these beautiful birds? Pat Johnson shares a wealth of information to help you educate yourself about the pheasant business.
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