baby-chicks
Caring For Baby Chicks with Pasty Butt
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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Winter Water: Keep it Flowing For Your Poultry!
Like all living things, chickens need water to thrive, but keeping your hens hydrated in winter can be a challenge when temperatures plummet. Consider these tips to keep the fluids flowing, even in the coldest climates.
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Understanding Sex Link Chickens Today
Even if you have only purebred birds in your flock, they might be sex-link chickens. Don’t panic! Your birds are still purebred!
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What Roosters Are Crowing About
I often have wondered what determines if the noise a chicken makes will be a cluck, coo or crow. And with all that talking, are they actually saying anything at all?
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Understanding Sex-Link Hybrid Chickens
At Backyard Poultry we get questions all the time asking for help identifying the breed of various chickens. Many times the chickens pictured are not purebred chickens at all but crossbreeds / hybrid chickens hatcheries produce for very specific purposes – such as egg production.
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Dog Breeds that Get Along with Chickens: Raising the Family Dog Alongside Poultry
Are there dog breeds that get along with chickens? Here are a few things to consider when raising chickens with dogs.
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Cock-A-Doodle … Don’t?
Rooster’s rock! They are beautiful, majestic, and handsome gents, and I love them … well, some of them.
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When Can Chicks Go Outside?
Keeping brooders at optimal temperatures helps babies stay healthy. But when can chicks go outside?
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How To Administer the Marek’s Disease Vaccine to Poultry Chicks
Do you know the proper way to administer the Marek’s vaccine to your chicks? Marek’s disease is very prevalent everywhere there is poultry, and if your chickens catch it there is no cure.
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What Do Ducks Eat?
The question I always get from backyard chicken keepers thinking about adding some domestic ducks to their flock is “What do ducks eat?”
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