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Are Herbicides and Pesticides Safe for Chickens? Exploring the Potential Risks and PrecautionsOne of the neighbors at my old address was a lawn freak. The chemical trucks were there every month, and sometimes more, depending on what disease...
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Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED HatchingI did this, and although I was in the center of the airsac, somehow the yolk busted, and we lost our already beloved duckling. He was perfectly...
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Are Herbicides and Pesticides Safe for Chickens? Exploring the Potential Risks and Precautionsgreat and important information. Has it been studied of how mach micro and nano plastics our chickens consume with all the plastic waterers and...
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Egg failure to hatch - Diagnosing incubation problemsIt shouldn't affect it then. It is when the eggs are developing that foreign bacteria can hurt them the most, but when they have already developed...- Saveria
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The Dig Box: Customizable Fun for Any Chicken RunQuick read with a lot of good I formation is the best kind of article! Nicely structured with helpful pictures. Thanks for sharing this awesome...- PromiseChicks
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Xylophones, mirrors, and bells...oh my! — Discovering what activities your chickens actually enjoyGreat article! I've only owned birds since 2025, and quickly realized toys would not be the best investments. Your suggestions were right on target!
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Sex Linked Chickens for Beginners, What they are and how to breed them.Very informative! Good introduction to sex-link chickens- muddy75
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Incubating Emu Eggs
- Pyxis
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Incubating Emu Eggs Perhaps you have been contemplating adding emus to your farm and have decided you want to hatch them yourself. Or maybe... -
Click Your Way to a Well-Trained Chicken
- Jacquej57
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Assisting Call Duck Hatches
- BirdsBeesTrees
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Top 10 Favorite Backyard Chicken Breeds
- BYC Project Manager
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The "EGG PLANT"
- chickinlittles
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Hello, my name is Coko Brown. I live with my husband in Wynola, California on 2.5 acres in the back country of San Diego County. We call our... -
Fixing Curled Toes With Tape - Picture Tutorial and Video
- casportpony
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The Essential Beginners Guide to Backyard Chickens.
- Kuntry Klucker
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By: Noelle Moser So, you want to raise chickens, but you have no idea where to begin. In this article, I show you how to start a backyard flock... -
Egg Laws in the U.S.A
- A_Fowl_Guy
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We all like our eggs but what happened when we have more than we can eat? Well we want to sell them of course so! Selling eggs supplements cost of... -
My coop brooder and Integration
- blackdog043
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I use a coop brooder with the Mama heat pad. At four weeks, I use a panic door panel for the brooder, to let the chicks interact with the big... -
Can You OUTSMART a Chicken?
- Mimi13
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And the answer is, “Heavens NO! Are you kidding?” The species would not have continued to exist if the answer had been yes. This somewhat fragile... -
The Chik Inn
- Tammerella
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This is the third coop we have built. The first one we built was our beginning stages into raising chickens, and was a temporary coop until we had... -
Featherdust Flock: Retrofit Shed Coop
- Nambroth
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INTRODUCTION When we first got into chickens, we built a medium/small coop from scratch, after much research. Experience has a way of teaching... -
Small urban coop, Quaker style 4x4 with walk-in run
- staceyj
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After admiring,talking and reading about chickens for 30+ years my spouse surprised me last Christmas morning with a really cute coop he bought at... -
S&D Roost
- sgrzybin
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As with all backyard chicken stories, we started with 6 chickens and a small roost and it quickly turned into a lot more. No, this is not the... -
Fanci Feathers' Coop
- Fanci Feathers Marans
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Hatched: October 1, 2017. Chick of RedHead Name: FTBH Hatched: August 25th, 2016 by broody hen Temperament: stand-offish Adventures: went to MO... -
The Little Cottage Coop
- dewtattoo
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This coop was a 4-week build. I did most of the construction on the weekends and worked on the smaller stuff during the week. I have... -
Lavender Guinea & Keets 2016
- BlueShadow
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This mama guinea sat on her nest for 4 weeks, right under our noses, and we never noticed. I knew she had disappeared, but I just assumed that a... -
Chick Instructions on one page!
- duluthralphie
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I have written an “instruction” sheet I hand out with chicks people buy from me. The actual “sheet” is written in this article in Italics. The...