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Keeping Guinea Fowl with Chickens
Keeping guinea fowl with chickens creates an exciting dynamic as long as you understand the needs of both types and take some precautions.
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Rent a Chicken: Hens For Hire
Looking to rent a chicken? Hens for Hire is a great way to have chickens available in schools and for teaching about poultry.
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Raising Guinea Fowl for Meat
Guinea fowl for meat birds offers slower growth, but more meat, vitamin, and protein along with lower cholesterol than domestic chickens.
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Worms in Chickens: Roundworm Resistance
Roundworm resistance is still being widely researched. Learn signs and symptoms of parasitic infection and worms in chickens and turkeys.
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What is a Flock Leader?
What is a flock leader? Learn what it take for a hen to rise in the flock’s ranks to become their queen and what she does for them.
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The Best Types of Roosters for Your Flock
Whether you have a purebred or mixed flock, choosing the right types of roosters will benefit you flock for years to come.
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New Poultry Varieties Enter APA
New poultry varieties and breeds are continually making their way toward recognition by the American Poultry Association (APA).
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Chicken Scraps to Avoid or Limit
What chickens scraps should you avoid feeding? Can they have cheese or citrus? While some are okay in small amounts, others not at all.
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Fall Chicken Salad Recipe
A fall chicken salad recipe can be plain, fancy, or somewhere in between. Check out these recipes, you’re sure to find one that’s perfect.
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Poultry News, Oct/Nov 2023
Add to Favorites Microplastics in Poultry, swans in the news, chicken backpacks, and more. Microplastics in Poultry Earlier this year, researchers from Portugal published “Microplastics in Terrestrial Domestic Animals and …
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