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Spring Chicken Breed Directory
Add to Favorites By Christine Heinrichs, California BANTAMS Nankin Nankins have a unique black-tailed red color pattern. Males are ginger red color with orange red hackles and saddle. Their tails …
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Chick Nutrition – Start to Finish
Add to Favorites Knowing what to feed baby chicks is a critical first step to giving them a fighting chance. Precocial as they may be, chicks are still vulnerable to …
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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 Backyard Turkeys for Meat
Of all homestead poultry projects, raising backyard turkeys seems to appeal to the least number of people. Turkeys are amazingly stupid — from the newly hatched poults who can starve to death while trampling in their feed because they haven’t learned where to find it, to the hens who lay their eggs standing up.
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Simple Turkey Brine Techniques
We love our turkey dinners, especially toward the end of the year, but we’ve all suffered from dry, tasteless white meat that must be smothered in gravy to be palatable.
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Advancing Into the World of Pigeon Farming
There are thousands of different breeds for pigeon farming. Of course, I couldn’t go through them all in this article, so I will attempt to narrow it down to some of the most common and unique ones.
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Poultry Farming Terminology – What’s in a Name?
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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Incubating Duck Eggs with Chicken Eggs
If you have already tried incubating chicken eggs, you know how addicting it can be. Have you tried incubating duck eggs?
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Beautiful Bantams: Black Cochins and Silver Spangled Hamburgs
Add to Favorites By Grace McCain, Oklahoma The comparison of Silver Spangled Hamburgs and Black Cochins is proof that there is variety in the world of bantam chicken breeds, and …
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Chicken Mites & Northern Fowl Mites: Controlling Infestations
Add to Favorites By Laura E. John – The goal of most poultry flock owners is to reap all of the benefits from their investments of time, money and labor. …
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