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Top 10 Duck Keeping Questions Answered
Here are 10 duck keeping questions that both novices and experts often have.
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How to Tell the Sex of Baby Chicks
Whether at the feed store choosing day-old chicks or hatching our own, all of us would probably enjoy knowing how to tell the sex of baby chicks to determine which are cockerels and which are pullets as soon as possible. Over the past 100 years there have been many methods developed for how to tell the sex of baby chicks; some methods proved haphazard, some have proven quite effective.
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Understanding Sex-Link Chickens Today
Add to Favorites By Doug Ottinger – Did you know that even if you have only purebred birds in your flock, they might be sex-links? Wait, don’t panic! Your birds are …
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All About Heavy Goose Breeds
Breed spotlight on heavy goose breeds the Embden, African, and Toulouse. The American Poultry Association separates goose breeds into three classes for exhibition purposes: heavy, medium, and light.
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Chicken DNA, Part 2: Genetics, Genomes, Genomics & More
Add to Favorites CHICKEN DNA, PART 2 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 …
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