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Breeding, Hatching, and Brooding Baby 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?
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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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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