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Caring For Baby Chicks with Pasty Butt
Chick season will soon be in full swing. If you are new to having backyard chickens and just starting out caring for baby chicks, you should be aware of a potentially life-threatening, but easily treatable condition that is fairly common, affecting mainly shipped day-old chicks.
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How to Order Baby Chicks in the Mail
So you want to start raising backyard chickens? And you want to start out with cute, fuzzy chicks? Of course, you do.
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Building My Dream Chicken Run and Coop
My fascination with chickens started when I was just a boy of 13 years. I tended the chickens, gathered the eggs, cleaned the chicken run and coop.
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How to Raise Broiler Chickens
Learning how to raise broiler chickens, for those of us who have had chickens before, is quite easy.
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How to Build a Chicken Coop for First-Timers
How to build a chicken coop and all the many features that can be built in or around them can be overwhelming for the first time coop builder. If you’re preparing to build your first coop, I know the question on your mind.
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10 Hilarious Chicken Questions (Like Why Are Some Eggs Brown?)
Chicken egg color is determined by the breed of the hen that laid the egg. Different breeds lay different colored chicken eggs. For instance, the white eggs seen in grocery stores are most likely laid by a White Leghorn.
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3 Tips to Help Hens Lay Eggs That Are Fresh & Healthy
Raising backyard chickens should be fun. You provide your hens a chicken coop, care and quality feeds. They provide you nutritious eggs and undeniable companionship.
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Egg Candling Chart
A chicken egg takes 21 days to hatch. 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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How Long do Chicks Need a Heat Lamp?
Because they don’t have feathers to self-regulate temperature, newly hatched chicks depend on mothers to keep them warm. Darting beneath wings when they’re cold, and coming out to eat and drink, babies thrive on the mother-to-chick relationship. Brooder chicks must have appropriate heat sources, and humans must closely monitor them with thermometers and good judgment.
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Selling Eggs as a Business on the Homestead
There are chickens in the backyard, eggs all over the kitchen, and you might be thinking “maybe it’s time to start selling eggs.”
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