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Picking the Best Heated Waterer for Your Coop
Water is a critical part of keeping your birds happy, healthy, and productive. When the temperatures fall and water freezes, your birds will be deprived of one of their most essential nutrients.
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Bethel Home Helping Hens
Add to Favorites Chickens ride a growing movement of animal therapy in care homes. These gentle, low-maintenance birds bring back memories of farms and simpler times. Kristina Reser-Jaynes watched a …
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How to Find the Non-Laying Chickens in Your Flock
Learn how to identify the non-laying chickens in your flock through multiple methods and how you should deal with them.
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Dealing with Chicken Mortality
I often meet people who want their dog or cat to have a litter so the children can “experience the miracle of life.” I advise them to raise chickens instead so children can experience the miracle of life and the wonder of death.
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The Endocrine System of a Chicken
The chicken endrocrine system is made up of a number of organs and major glands located throughout the bird that produce a special chemical messenger called a hormone.
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A Vocabulary List Built Just for Chicken Owners
For those new to the hobby or for veterans who want to brush up, here are the must have vocabulary words for a chicken owner.
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Chicken Class Action
Add to Favorites Story and Photos By Dennis Carlson It all came about in the usual way. The fifth-sixth grade teacher at Beautiful Savior Lutheran School, Glory Jansen, asked me, …
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The Circulatory System — Biology of the Chicken, Part 6
The circulatory system of the chicken must provide an efficient manner of retrieving oxygen from our atmosphere. In other words, flight muscles need a lot of oxygen.
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Chicken DNA, Part 2: Genetics, Genomes, Genomics & More
Add to Favorites By Doug Ottinger This is the second in a six-part series on poultry genetics by Doug Ottinger. The third article coming in the June-July issue will look …
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The Origins of Chicken Domestication
Red jungle fowl and the origins of chicken domestication.
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