poultry
Raising Baby Chicks: A Beginner’s Guide
Here’s what you need to know about raising baby chicks before you bring them home.
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Can Chickens Eat Ginger Root?
Can chickens eat ginger root? Whether fresh, powdered, or dried, try ginger for poultry health. It can boost immunity, help support them during a bout of diarrhea, and may even increase the nutritional value of their eggs.
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Environmentally Friendly Chicken Keeping
Smart gardening, material reuse, and other easy tricks incorporate your flock into an environmentally friendly approach to animal husbandry.
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Hatching Eggs in an Incubator is Fun and Easy
If you’re considering hatching your own flock of backyard chickens here’s a few things you need to know for hatching eggs in an incubator successfully. For embryos to develop correctly, eggs need to be kept at the right temperature, turned often and correctly positioned.
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Poultry Paradise in Scotland
From London to the Outer Hebrides, Clare Pussey started a new life and animal farm with alpaca, poultry, and pigs.
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Winter Layers
Keep hens laying in winter with ventilated coops, windbreaks, heated water, deep bedding.
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Snowbound Winter Chickens
Add to Favorites From shoveling snow to reach the coop, to hens that don’t take well to being snowbound, winter chickens have their own set of challenges. by Gina Stack …
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Generational Teaching with Chickens and Kids
Grandkids learn to care for animals teaching responsibility, organization, animal husbandry
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Keeping Guinea Fowl with Chickens
Keeping guinea fowl with chickens creates an exciting dynamic as long as you understand the needs of both types and take some precautions.
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Raising Meat Chickens: 4 Lessons Learned
Learn 4 lessons for raising meat chickens from an experienced farmer including keeping your chickens humanely and organically.
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