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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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Bringing New Chicks Home
Bringing home a new, peeping box with fluffy little chicks can be scary, but Elizabeth Mack has lots of excellent advice to help you.
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Making Salt-Cured Quail Egg Yolks
Salt-cured egg yolks are the most delightful addition to any meal.
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Waste Not, Want Not
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.
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Breed Profile: Magpie Duck
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.
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BUILDING A CHICKEN COOP
Build a chicken coop for your flock size and environment. Use inexpensive, secondhand, or scavenged materials materials
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Why Golden Comets?
Golden comet hens are prolific egg producers, good mothers, and flock additions.
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The Three Strikes Rule for Bad Boys
Aggressive roosters can harm hens, hurt humans and other animals. When do you choose to butcher?
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Raising Heritage Turkey Breeds
Heritage turkey breeds recover from severe population decline after commercial broad-breasted birds monopolize market.
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How to Break a Broody Hen
Have a broody hen that just isn’t getting the message of “no more babies?” Try these tips on how to break a broody hen.
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When Hens Stop Laying
Summer is warm, the days are long, and you get used to having lots of eggs. Then your hens stop laying. Michele Cook looks at the many different reasons your hens may (temporarily) have stopped laying eggs.
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