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Tamsin Cooper
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Breed Profile: Egyptian Fayoumi Chicken
Egyptian Fayoumi chickens are tough and thrifty birds with remarkable disease resistance and heat tolerance. They are highly fertile and good layers.
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Chick and Duckling Imprinting
Chick and duckling imprinting has important psychological effects on the individual bird and the flock, so it is important to get it right from the start.
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Breed Profile: Bresse Chicken
Bresse chickens are France’s best tasting meat chickens. Much of their flavor is due to the unique geography they freely range over, as well as traditional feeding and husbandry methods.
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Breed Profile: Golden Comet Chickens
Golden Comet chickens are friendly, calm, and prolific layers, making excellent backyard birds, but life is often shortened by reproductive tract issues.
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Guinea–Chicken Hybrid: Can Chickens and Guineas Breed?
Guinea–chicken hybrids are an unusual phenomenon, as nature does not favor the cross, leading to health issues and early death.
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Chicken Husbandry: Five Welfare Needs
Chicken welfare is an important consideration within chicken husbandry. We need to know chickens’ needs in order to raise them to be healthy and productive.
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A Chicken’s Five Basic Needs
Chickens are sensitive to their environment, motivations, and sense of well-being. Happy chickens cope better with changes and challenges, whereas distressed birds may easily go downhill.
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Breed Profile: Barnevelder Chicken
Barnevelder chickens were developed from Dutch landrace and Asiatic chickens for their large brown eggs. Later they were standardized to double-laced plumage. They make charming backyard foragers.
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Chicken Society—Are Chickens Social Animals?
Are chickens social animals? How do they integrate into the chicken community? Learn about the rules, tricks, and sophistication of chicken society.
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Breed Profile: Ameraucana Chicken
Amercaucana chickens have tails and muffs, with eight varieties recognized in both Bantam and large fowl. Lavender Ameraucanas are a very popular newer variety that is not yet recognized by the APA or ABA.
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