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What Not to Feed Your Chickens so They Stay Healthy
Add to Favorites Feeding your chickens a varied diet supplies them with plenty of nutrients for optimal health, can alleviate boredom and help with seasonal issues like heat and cold. …
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How the Veterinary Feed Directive will Affect Chicken & Poultry Owners
Add to Favorites January’s a time for New Year’s Resolutions and new starts. For backyard poultry owners in the United States, January 2017 was a new start in the way …
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How Do Chickens Mate?
Add to Favorites “How do chickens mate?” might be a question you have when you first keep a rooster. And it might seem a bit disturbing at first if you …
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Electrolytes for Chickens: Keep Your Flock Hydrated and Healthy in Summer
Add to Favorites What do you drink in the summer? Chances are your beverage choices are different in the summertime compared to winter. A cold drink consumed more frequently helps …
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Can You Train a Chicken or Even a Backyard Flock to Come?
Add to Favorites Can you train a chicken? The short answer is yes. And while some may think this is a silly concept, it can literally be a life saver …
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5 Common Chicken Diseases and Symptoms
Add to Favorites Not many vets specialize in chicken diseases and symptoms. Finding a good source of information, like Backyard Poultry magazine, is important. We keep chickens from the sustenance …
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Feeding Your Flock Organic Chicken Feed
When deciding to use organic chicken feed for your flock, it’s first good to know what to feed chickens for a healthy diet. Believe it or not, an interesting fact about chickens is they don’t need grain to survive. Most people don’t realize chickens are not primarily herbivores (plant eaters).
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Your Options For Chicken Mite Treatment
Add to Favorites Before starting a chicken mite treatment it’s important to know if your flock has mites. So the first step is to perform a Chicken Health Exam. From there, …
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Chicken Mites Treatment: How to Keep Lice and Mites Out of Your Coop
Add to Favorites When it comes to chicken mites treatment, the best defense against poultry pests is a good offense! Warm weather brings out the lice, mites and other creepy-crawlies …
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Heart-Shaped Chicken Treats for Your Flock
Add to Favorites Whether our birds are pets or livestock, we all want to make sure they are as safe and warm as possible in bad weather. During cold winter …
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