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Breed Profile: Cayuga Duck
Cayuga ducks are a threatened breed. These beautiful, iridescent, green feathered ducks are great for their flavorful meat, egg production, show quality, and their ability to make great pets.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Ducks in Suburbia
Ducks can be charming companions in suburban backyards. Check out this beginner’s guide to keeping ducks in suburbia.
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Combating 7 Critters in Chicken Coops and Runs
Add to Favorites Keeping a clean, critter-free chicken coop and run is important for your chickens’ health and happiness. Insects, bugs, and rodents carry disease and eat feed; snakes will …
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Raising Pilgrim Geese
Learn from an expert hatcher as he explains the benefits and basics of Pilgrim Geese through his own experiences.
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Breed Profile: Pilgrim Goose
The Pilgrim goose is a hardy, auto-sexing breed with excellent foraging and mothering skills that makes an excellent dual-purpose breed for homestead produce and pasture maintenance.
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How to Add a Royal Palm Turkey to Your Flock
A Royal Palm turkey can be easily integrated into your flock. Their requirements for diet, safety, and dust baths are similar to chickens.
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Secret Life of Poultry: Charlene
Add to Favorites by Lacey Hughett Last summer in western Massachusetts, Jude was visited by a stray chicken. Jude, having absolutely no experience with chickens, wasn’t quite sure what to …
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Chickens in Famous Gardens
Learn about chickens in famous gardens through the avian residents of Rudyard Kipling’s home and see how they help maintain the estate.
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Is Caring for Chickens a Huge Time Commitment?
Discover four women’s experiences of many years caring for chickens, including joy and woes, and why two ended their backyard chicken lifestyle.
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BYP Urban Chicken Keeping e-edition Flip Book
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