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What is Tempera Paint? How Eggs Shaped Art History
Add to Favorites What came first, the chicken portrait or the egg paint? What is tempera paint and how did it illuminate a colorful history through art and architecture? Tinúviel …
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Useful Chicken Accessories for Your Flock
Add to Favorites Chicken keeping is becoming increasingly popular across the country. This popularity surge has led to the invention of new chicken accessories for small and large flock keepers …
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4 Tips for Composting Chicken Manure
Add to Favorites For those of you with vegetable and flower beds, or for those of you who just have lawns, I feel it is unnecessary, if not wasteful, to …
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How to Raise Free Range Chickens
Add to Favorites In the discussion of raising chickens, there have been two traditional schools of thought. The first is total free range. Usually, an evening feeding of grain or other …
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Quail Egg Benefits: Nature’s Perfect Finger Food
Add to Favorites Story and Photos By Janice Cole, Minnesota There’s something about quail eggs that makes them hard to resist. The tiny brown-speckled gems with their aqua interiors look …
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Candling Eggs and Advanced Techniques for Artificial Incubation & Hatching
Add to Favorites By Rob Banks, England – Candling eggs is an age-old technique that has modern applications in incubating and hatching poultry. After studying the incubation of many species and …
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How to Influence the Law on Keeping Chickens in Residential Areas
Add to Favorites Is keeping chickens one of your New Year’s resolutions? Are you interested in learning more about how to legally keep chickens in your residential area? Where does …
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10 Tips for Fermenting Chicken Feed
Add to Favorites Have you given any thought to how fermenting chicken feed can benefit your flock of backyard chickens? Fermenting is all the rage nowadays, both in people foods …
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Can Chickens Eat Watermelon? Yes. Watermelon Soup with Mint Hits the Spot
Add to Favorites Can chickens eat watermelon? Yes. They love it! You can feed it to them directly by cutting open the melon and letting them feast. Or you can …
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The History and Future of Marans Chickens
Add to Favorites By William Morrow – Marans chickens are synonymous with chocolate brown eggs. Marans chickens originated in the French village of the same name about 240 miles southwest of …
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