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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

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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Herbs for Your Poultry First-Aid Kit

Yarrow, calendula, and nettle heal wounds, have anti-bacterial properties and should be in your poultry first-aid kit.

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Skolebrød Recipe

Skolebøller is a classic Norwegian egg custard bread, beloved by school children.

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Preserving Eggs (Plus Recipes!)

What’s a flock owner to do to keep those priceless eggs in abundance year-round? Preserve them. In this two-part series, I’ll take you around the kitchen and show you how to keep farm-fresh eggs throughout the year.

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Enteritis in Chickens and Other Poultry

Learn to spot enteritis in chickens, turkeys, quails, and ducks to help them maintain good gut health.

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