Kids’ Corner
Picking Show Chicken Breeds For Beginners
Picking show chicken breeds for your first foray into the world of fancy poultry can be as daunting as trying to understand genetics. But with a few simple pointers, you can be on your way to success.
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How Do Chickens Lay Eggs?
“I can’t buy your eggs anymore,” was the astonishing announcement made by a college student who had been one of my best customers. I had to know what was going on.
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Where to Buy Baby Chicks
After figuring out which chicken breeds will best suit your family or farm, you need to decide where to buy baby chicks.
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An Interesting Fact About Chickens: They Can Walk Like Dinosaurs
Add to Favorites Research that makes people laugh, then think. That is the premise of the Ig Nobel awards that have been held annually at Harvard University for the last …
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Reilly Chicken Tenders
A second grade ESL teacher in Texas recently became my childhood hero. Last spring at Margaret Reilly Elementary School, Kerriann Duffy overheard a couple of staff members deciding what to do with an old incubator that they had stumbled across while cleaning out a storage shed on campus. She offered to take the machine and asked if anyone minded her incubating a few eggs.
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A Primer on Hatching and Raising Chicks in School
Add to Favorites Though I am mostly a farmer now, my training is in Montessori early childhood education. Raising chicks in the classroom is like the bringing together of my two …
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Chicken Class Action
Add to Favorites Story and Photos By Dennis Carlson It all came about in the usual way. The fifth-sixth grade teacher at Beautiful Savior Lutheran School, Glory Jansen, asked me, …
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Local Students Connect With Farm Life by Adopting Chickens
Add to Favorites By Quinn Eurich, Connecticut The barn is a sturdy 135 years old, the bales of hay are from the previous year, and the families sitting on or …
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