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Identifying and Treating Respiratory Infections In Chickens
Add to Favorites Respiratory infection in chickens is a serious concern, but many new flock owners tend to jump to conclusions every time a chicken sneezes. Keeping your birds healthy …
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Buckeye Enthusiast Keeps Heritage Hens Safe With Livestock Guardian Dogs
Add to Favorites By Brenda M.Negri – You can hear the dedication and sound reasoning in Washington farmer and heritage Buckeye breeder Barbara Judd’s voice when she says why she uses …
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How to Stop Chicken Pecking & Cannibalism
Add to Favorites Chicken cannibalism is an unfortunate problem many first-time flock owners face. Inexperience, circumstances, and accidents can ignite a ruthless chain of destruction within your flock. Let’s talk …
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It’s Show Time! Picking the Best Birds to Show and Making Sure They Look Their Best
Add to Favorites Picking show-quality chickens, either to represent your breeder flock or from the sale cages at a show, can be challenging. As always, information is king, so be …
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A DIY Chicken Cone Harvesting Station
Add to Favorites Whether you are trying out raising meat chickens or you just have a few birds from your laying flock that you’d like to stew, a chicken cone …
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Ah! There’s Nothing Like a Good Dust Bath in the Afternoon
Add to Favorites By Carrie Cook Verona, Wisconsin Perhaps you’ve noticed your flock scratching and rolling around in the dust, tossing up clouds of dirt and digging out holes, and …
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It’s HOT Out There!
Add to Favorites By Dave Anderson President of American Poultry Association As summer heats up, it is a good time to think about protecting our birds from the extreme heat …
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When, Why and How to Deworm Chickens
Add to Favorites Most chickens have worms of one sort or another, and an otherwise healthy chicken can tolerate a modest worm load. A heavy worm load, however, can impair …
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Chicken Diseases And Your Backyard Flock
Add to Favorites By Jen Pitino With the rapid and seemingly unstoppable spread of avian influenza across the United States in 2015, the containment and control of this disease is at the forefront of most …
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Poultry Feed For Molting Season
Add to Favorites During the fall molting season, your chickens will begin to lose their feathers and grow in new ones in preparation for the upcoming cold weather. Old, broken and dirty feathers don’t …
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