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The Secret Life of Poultry: Austin’s Chicken Composting Program
Learn how the city of Austin, Texas, created a chicken composting program to help reduce city-wide waste output per household.
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5 Farm Fresh Egg Benefits
Eggs are one of nature’s most perfect protein sources. How can we take this essential food to the next level? Learn some fresh egg benefits.
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Chicken Beak Injury & Other Health Questions Answered
Ask our experts about your flock’s health, feed, production, housing and more! We’re focused on health, including chicken beak injury.
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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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What Should Chickens Eat When They Turn 18? (Weeks Old)
When you turn 18, you can do a lot of new things. You can vote, buy fireworks and even try your luck with the lottery. The magical number means – welcome to adulthood.
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Chicken Life Cycle: 6 Milestones of Your Flock
Graduating school. Getting married. Having children. Retirement. We celebrate many milestones in life. Key moments also happen for backyard chickens.
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The Dorking Chicken and Other Classic Breeds
Most of the 200 breeds and varieties of chickens that were once common on farms are now considered rare. Including a breed that is part of our history in your poultry operation gives your flock a role in historic preservation and genetic diversity.
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Two Paths to Producing Your Own Organic Eggs
Add to Favorites Spring is an exciting time for chicken raisers. For families just starting with baby chicks, it signals new life and new projects. Experienced chicken raisers feel a similar excitement …
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Chicken Math For The Budding Production Flock
Carefully consider coop specs, egg cartons, feed consumption, and breed-specific feed conversion rates to determine your profit.
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We Try To Put All the Poultry Clichés and Idioms in One Basket
Learn new and old poultry cliches and idioms used in language through the years.
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