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Breed Profile: Royal Palm Turkey
The Royal Palm turkey is a beautiful heritage variety that is ideal for homesteaders and free-range small farms due to its hardiness, thriftiness, and self-sufficiency.
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Environmentally Friendly Chicken Keeping
Smart gardening, material reuse, and other easy tricks incorporate your flock into an environmentally friendly approach to animal husbandry.
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The Realities of Guinea Fowl Care
Providing good guinea fowl care can be a pleasure … or cause problems with the neighbors. Learn about the realities of guinea fowl.
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Kenyan Crested Guinea Fowl
Cotswold Wildlife Park is home to a wide range of animals, including exotic birds. Today we’re meeting the Kenyan Crested Guinea Fowl.
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What is Custard and Where is It From?
Sometimes, all it takes is a simple bowl of goodness like egg custard to wash away the worries and stresses in life. But what is custard?
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Egg Yolk Color and Nutrition
Get to know and understand how chicken feeds can impact egg quality, egg yolk color and nutrition.
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What Causes Double Yolk Eggs and Other Odd Eggs?
What causes double yolk eggs? As chicks start to lay eggs, odds are you may find a double yolk egg in your egg basket.
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Egg Candling Chart
By candling the eggs, you can determine stage of development or if the egg has failed to develop and died within the shell.
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Modern Tips for Hatching Eggs for Kids in Classrooms
The rules have changed.
When I was a kid, hatching eggs for kids in schools was as simple as bringing in eggs and an incubator.
Spotting Ectoparasites on Ducks
Waterfowl parasites, also called ectoparasites, eat blood, feather shafts and cause long term illness in your ducks.
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