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Are Chickens Good Pets for Homeowners?
Homeowners keep chickens for fresh eggs, insect control, and companionship! Chickens may be good pets, but they are not house pets. An optimal flock size is three or more. Be sure to provide healthy food, fresh water, and a home in your backyard.
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Raising Chickens Brought Positive Energy to Our Lives!
Live life in harmony with nature and the environment by welcoming chickens into your life.
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Picking the Best Heated Waterer for Your Coop
Water is a critical part of keeping your birds happy, healthy, and productive. When the temperatures fall and water freezes, your birds will be deprived of one of their most essential nutrients.
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A Primer on Hatching and Raising Chicks in School
Hatching and raising chicks in school teaches children invaluable lessons about animal husbandry. Hear some expert tips to run things well.
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Buying Spent Stock From a Poultry Breeding Farm
Purchasing spent breeders from a poultry breeding farm and hatchery can be a promising option for backyard poultry keepers.
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Taking Control – Breeding to Establish Traits You Want in a Backyard Flock
If there are desirable traits you want to reproduce in your home flock, remember that the best-laying hens are the ones that have the traits you like the best!
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Bethel Home Helping Hens
Add to Favorites Chickens ride a growing movement of animal therapy in care homes. These gentle, low-maintenance birds bring back memories of farms and simpler times. Kristina Reser-Jaynes watched a …
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Part Seven: The Nervous System
Add to Favorites Not unlike our own human body, the chicken’s body needs a control center with a communication network. The nervous system inside our Hank and Henrietta integrates and …
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Part Five: The Muscular System
Add to Favorites The muscular systems of our Hank and Henrietta must truly be considered “the meat” of the series on the biology of the chick-en. Muscles, whether labeled white meat …
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How to Find the Non-Laying Chickens in Your Flock
Learn how to identify the non-laying chickens in your flock through multiple methods and how you should deal with them.
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