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Tips for Brooding Heritage Turkeys
March 8, 2021 · · Poultry 101

With self-sufficiency gaining popularity, you may be considering expanding your flock beyond just chickens. Why not add heritage turkeys to your farm?

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Buying and Saving with Friends — End-of-Day Hatchery Specials

Add to Favorites By Doug Ottinger – Buying leftover, bargain-chick assortments from your favorite chicken hatchery is one of the most fun-filled adventures that any poultry keeper or group of …

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Raising Turkeys for Meat in the Backyard
November 26, 2020 · · Eggs & Meat

Discover what you need to know when raising backyard turkeys from brooding to feed finishing before they appear on the dinner table.

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Poultry Farming Terminology – What’s in a Name?
April 11, 2020 · · Poultry 101

Whether you are new to poultry farming or you already have years of experience under your belt, you have probably at some point come across a poultry farming term that’s unfamiliar.

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Chicken Mites and Northern Fowl Mites: Controlling Infestations

Red chicken mites and Northern Fowl mites can be controlled with clean coops and early detection.

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Keeping Jersey Buff Turkeys on a Heritage Turkey Farm

Keeping Jersey Buff Turkeys on a Heritage Turkey Farm is fun, easy and critical to their conservation as a heritage breed.

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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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A Vocabulary List Built Just for Chicken Owners
March 14, 2019 · · Chickens 101

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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We Try To Put All the Poultry Clichés and Idioms in One Basket
March 14, 2019 · · Chickens 101

Learn new and old poultry cliches and idioms used in language through the years.

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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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