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To Refrigerate or Not!
Why do Europeans keep their eggs unrefrigerated, and Americans don’t?
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Top 7 Questions About Vaccinating Your Flock
Add to Favorites By Michelle Miller – It’s spring again, which means lots of us are ramping up to bring home new birds. However, with new birds, come new (and old) …
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How To Get Rid of Mice and Rats in the Coop Naturally
There are legitimate reasons why we prefer to shy away from rodent bait, so let’s look at natural ways to get rid of mice and rats without the use of chemicals.
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Wondering How to Wash Fresh Eggs? It’s Safer Not To!
Americans tend to be germaphobes, which probably explains why we need to know how to wash fresh eggs.
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Which Brooder Heating Options are Best?
Add to Favorites By Mel Dickinson — Chick brooders come in all different designs, shapes, and sizes. There are baby chick brooder ideas for each homesteader’s and farmer’s unique setup. …
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Chick Nutrition – Start to Finish
Knowing what to feed baby chicks is a critical step. Besides a good brooder setup, your best tool for success is proper chick nutrition.
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How to Hatch Chicken Eggs
It is time to begin preparations for breeding and collecting eggs for hatching. Anyone can have great success in learning how to hatch chicken eggs; all that is necessary is to provide good conditions that work in accord with the nature of the birds, and the cycle of reproduction. So where do we begin?
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Combating 7 Critters in Chicken Coops and Runs
Add to Favorites Keeping a clean, critter-free chicken coop and run is important for your chickens’ health and happiness. Insects, bugs, and rodents carry disease and eat feed; snakes will …
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Is Caring for Chickens a Huge Time Commitment?
Discover four women’s experiences of many years caring for chickens, including joy and woes, and why two ended their backyard chicken lifestyle.
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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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