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Homemade Chicken Feed Mix: Champion Layers
Learn how to prepare a homemade chicken feed mix that your layers will love, and that gives them all the nutrients they need.
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How Do Chickens Mate?
How do chickens mate? It might seem a bit disturbing at first if you have not witnessed a rooster pursuing an available hen.
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Chicken Soup is Good Medicine
Chicken soup not only is warming and good for the soul, but also offers relief for the sniffles that ride in on winter weather.
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Top 10 Questions and Answers About Backyard Chickens
It’s getting easier for people outside the backyard poultry community to understand why so many of us choose to dedicate a portion of our lives to raising and caring for backyard chickens. I don’t get the same reaction I used to from suburbanites when they find out I raise backyard chickens through casual conversation.
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Where to Buy Baby Chicks
After figuring out which chicken breeds will best suit your family or farm, you need to decide where to buy baby chicks.
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What is Tempera Paint? How Eggs Shaped Art History
Learn what tempera paint is and how it used eggs to brighten up the world of art and architecture throughout history.
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Raising an Indoor Pet Chicken
Add to Favorites By Wendy E.N. Thomas – We never had any intentions of raising an indoor pet chicken, but it’s funny how life goes sometimes. Our indoor pet chicken experience …
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Ask the Expert — April/May 2019
Add to Favorites Tough Winter We’ve had a tough winter here in Central New Hampshire. Lots of snow and ice. The door to my chicken run becomes frozen often and …
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Old Hens: How to Feed and Care for Them
Old hens might not lay as much (or at all) but they can still be a beneficial member of the flock. Find out how to care for your older hens.
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Chickens in Famous Gardens
Learn about chickens in famous gardens through the avian residents of Rudyard Kipling’s home and see how they help maintain the estate.
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