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Backyard Poultry Contributor

We love when guest writers stop by to share their knowledge and love of raising poultry. Take a minute to learn something new from an experienced poultry keeper!
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Articles by Backyard Poultry Contributor

Seasonal Egg Dishes
November 2, 2023 · · Recipes

Clean out your freezer, forage for ingredients, use poultry eggs to make frittatas, quiches, and delicious burgers.

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Photo Essay: Little Dove Acres
November 2, 2023 · · Geese

Sebastopol geese are good parents, but a threatened breed that needs conserving.

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Breeding, Hatching, and Brooding Baby Turkeys
September 18, 2023 · · Turkeys

There aren’t a lot of differences between brooding and hatching chicks and poults. Learn the best way to hatch your own baby turkeys at home.

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Keeping Guinea Fowl with Chickens

Keeping guinea fowl with chickens creates an exciting dynamic as long as you understand the needs of both types and take some precautions.

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Raising Guinea Fowl for Meat

Guinea fowl for meat birds offers slower growth, but more meat, vitamin, and protein along with lower cholesterol than domestic chickens.

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Worms in Chickens: Roundworm Resistance

Roundworm resistance is still being widely researched. Learn signs and symptoms of parasitic infection and worms in chickens and turkeys.

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What is a Flock Leader?
September 18, 2023 · · Poultry 101

What is a flock leader? Learn what it take for a hen to rise in the flock’s ranks to become their queen and what she does for them.

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Chicken Scraps to Avoid or Limit

What chickens scraps should you avoid feeding? Can they have cheese or citrus? While some are okay in small amounts, others not at all.

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Cleaning Up After Flystrike

Learn how to recognize and treat flystrike caused by flies laying their eggs in dead or damaged poultry tissue.

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What’s in Your Chicken Feed?

Commercially produced chicken feeds use similar base ingredients. Learn key ingredients, phosphorus, protein, calcium, salts, crude fats.

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