Featured Stories
The Purple Swamphen
Purple swamphens are part of the rail family of birds like coots, the size of chickens with massive toes.
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Hatching Quail Eggs for School
Homesteading curriculum projects include hatching quail eggs with a Hatching Time incubator.
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Guinea Fowl Housing in Extreme Weather
Although they’re independent and fairly hardy, you may have to consider guinea fowl housing during weather extremes.
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Seasonal Egg Dishes
Clean out your freezer, forage for ingredients, use poultry eggs to make frittatas, quiches, and delicious burgers.
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Ask The Experts
Advice from our poultry experts Marissa Ames and Carla Tilghman on lash eggs, infectious bronchitis, chalazae, pokeweed, incubator doors, and more.
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Breed Profile: Appenzeller Spitzhauben Chicken
What Are Appenzeller Spitzhauben Chickens? Not only are they unique and endangered heritage breed Swiss poultry, with striking colors and crest, they are adapted to tough, cold mountain conditions.
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Poultry News, Dec23/Jan24
The World’s Oldest Chicken, Peanut; Uganda Vegan Society bans caged bird raising; Avian Flu update; cancelled turkey hunting.
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Breed Profile: Campine Chicken
The Campine chicken is a beautiful and thrifty egg layer, descended from an ancient line of heritage chickens from Belgium.
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Photo Essay: Little Dove Acres
Sebastopol geese are good parents, but a threatened breed that needs conserving.
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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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