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Selective Breeding in Backyard Flocks
Traci DeLore helps you navigate selective breeding in your flock. With a little effort, you can breed preferred traits into your flock.
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A Reference Guide for Incubation
Check out this handy reference guide to terms related to incubation and hatching, as well as incubation times for different poultry.
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How to Raise Ducklings
Need to know how to raise ducklings? Backyard Poultry has you covered. Here’s a quick primer to get you started.
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Candling Eggs and Advanced Techniques for Artificial Incubation and Hatching
Candling eggs is an age-old technique that has modern applications in incubating and hatching poultry. After studying the incubation of many species and breeds it became clear to me that almost all eggs follow a similar process during incubation and hatching.
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How Do Chickens Lay Eggs?
“I can’t buy your eggs anymore,” was the astonishing announcement made by a college student who had been one of my best customers. I had to know what was going on.
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A Primer on Hatching and Raising Chicks in School
Hatching and raising chicks in school teaches children invaluable lessons about animal husbandry. Hear some expert tips to run things well.
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Is It a Rooster? How To Sex Backyard Chickens
Unless you’re trained in baby chick identification and sexing, or you bought a sex linked variety, you won’t be able to tell until your backyard chickens begin to mature.
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