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Article 'Taming The Flock: How To Be Your Chickens' Favorite Human🐓❤'- talkinboutchickens
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Taming The Flock: How To Be Your Chickens' Favorite Human🐓❤I agree, it is still possible to get them to like you as adults, even skittish rescues, it's just harder. You could talk about the ti.e old...
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Taming The Flock: How To Be Your Chickens' Favorite Human🐓❤Thanks for writing this article! I enjoyed reading it! Much of the info for sure works as we have hatched batches of chicks before and most grew...- LoveMyPeepers
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Taming The Flock: How To Be Your Chickens' Favorite Human🐓❤I agree with that statement wholeheartedly! I love that picture, my chickens aren't even that cuddly lol!- talkinboutchickens
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Taming The Flock: How To Be Your Chickens' Favorite Human🐓❤I treat mine no different than my other pets and I find thats helpful they get pets and cutesy talk and snuggles just like the cats. Honestly...- Echelontheory101
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How to Handle the Ageing Process of ChickensMy chickens are pets too. We don't even eat many eggs, we give most of them away. I am new to the chicken world but I noticed that they all have...- EggFarm65
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Taming The Flock: How To Be Your Chickens' Favorite Human🐓❤Excellent tips for bonding with your chickens. I would reconsider taking them out of the shipping box for the ride home. The chicks huddle...
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What is the best breed for YOU?Good article for beginners who wouldn't know where to start! I especially like that you added your personal experience
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Interesting Facts About Chicken EggsWow! So much great info! I've heard giving corn can also help make the yolks more golden. ☺️- CCsGarden
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How to Handle the Ageing Process of ChickensI do not process my old hens. I just let them live their lives out. I have had a few buff orpintons live to about 10-11 years. I have a 6 year old...
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Getting Started Raising Chickens
This section has the most frequently asked questions when beginning your journey to raising chickens.
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Chicken Behavior The Ignorant Gal's Guide To Things No Sane Person Would Tell You About Chickens
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Noodle, contemplating scratching, Pepper, armpit deep in a hole, and Salt, who has just found something that needs excavation. The Ignorant... -
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Molting refers to the shedding of feathers. It is the natural process of losing and re-growing feathers. Most all birds do it including chickens... -
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Raising Chickens 101 BYC (BackYardChickens) has TONS of fantastic information on all aspects of chicken keeping, combined with a wealth of... -
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Cleaning eggs Sometimes, in spite of our efforts to provide a nice clean spot for our feathered friends to deposit the rent in, we'll get a... -
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Keeping a rooster can be fun and rewarding, and they are often great additions to the flock, and beautiful to boot. However, there is a lot of... -
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Many people out there long to have our feathered clucking friends, but may not be able to free range the flock as most people are able to do... -
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How to Handle the Ageing Process of Chickens
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Like any living creature, chickens grow old. They start out as tiny embryos inside an egg and end up as large, clucking birds full of life... -
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1. The Single The single comb is the most common. It is a simple straight row of spikes beginning at the bird's nostrils and sweeping back its... -
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An Inside Look at the Humble Sexlink Chicken
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. An Inside Look at the Humble Sexlink Chicken Sexlinks are one of the most common types of chickens out there, sold by most big hatcheries...