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3 Ways to Perform an Egg Freshness Test
You may wonder why anyone would need to perform an egg freshness test since most people raising chickens for eggs check the nesting boxes every day.
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Does it Matter if You Raise Heritage Chicken Breeds or Hybrids?
What are heritage chicken breeds? You may be asking this question if you start looking at different breeds of chickens to start a backyard flock.
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3 of The Best Dual-Purpose Chicken Breeds
The best dual-purpose chicken breeds are important on the homestead because they produce both meat and eggs. Breed choice is one of those topics that every chicken keeper has definite feelings about.
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Black Australorp Breed Profile
The Black Australorp is one of the heritage chicken breeds we choose to keep. I have found heritage chicken breeds to be hardier than standard breeds. It’s our desire to help preserve them for future generations.
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Chicken Myths, Busted
Add to Favorites By Robert Pekel, Arkansas The demand for fresh, nourishing food free of chemicals is accelerating. Small backyard chicken flocks are a clean, healthy source of eggs and …
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Ask the Expert — e-edition Early Spring 2017
Add to Favorites Gapeworm I have mixed flock of 14 nearly-two-year-old Rhode Island Reds, Red and Black Sex Links who seem mostly healthy, but are no longer laying. I also …
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Ask the Expert —December 2015/January 2016
Add to Favorites Broody For Too Long? We have a six-month-old Bantam hen, “Little Girl,” who has been brooding for 24 days. We took away her eggs in the chicken …
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