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Six Tips On Breaking Your Egg EaterThis is a great article, very informative! I tried the mustard egg on my egg eater... she ate it; the whole thing. I am now going to try pinless...- ChickenShepherd_6116
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Six Tips On Breaking Your Egg EaterI thought I had this problem, I even identified who i thought the culprit was and separated her from the others to be sure. But eggs were still...
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Six Tips On Breaking Your Egg EaterWhat are some roll away nesting boxes you would recommend? I have tried everything and can't stop my hens. I am considering buying some roll aways...- chicken mama 0908
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Six Tips On Breaking Your Egg EaterI think mustard would suffice and would NOT recommend using dish soap.- Lil TexHens
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Wing ClippingThank you for this article. Very well done and easy to understand. I'm a new chicken mama and have been concerned that my girls may try to fly...- Intuit
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Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks OutdoorsI have probably read this at least 3 times and each time I think of what I can do to adjust it to our coop. Great article. Thank you.- C Siena
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Six Tips On Breaking Your Egg Eatertried the egg with the mustard - they loved the mustard ate it all in no time. Rolling nesting box inserts seem to work once they accept going in...
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Six Tips On Breaking Your Egg EaterThis article is what I was looking for! Photo is the second time I've found just yolk. I've had 2 hole poked eggs this week too. I'm going to...
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Six Tips On Breaking Your Egg EaterThose are some great ideas, thank-you! Mine just started eating softer eggs recently, but now I believe they are eating more and more, and...- jeffdmeyer
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Hundreds of helpful articles covering everything you need to know about raising chickens. Choose from one of our main categories below, or start with our overview article: "How To Raise Chickens".
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Frostbite: What to Know About Injury, Care and Recovery
- Allsfairinloveandbugs
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Each year numerous frostbite threads appear on BYC where individuals seek information and advice. In most cases the frostbite is to the comb, the... -
Grass for Chickens-Taking a look at the natural health benefit provided by this everyday green
- Mountain Peeps
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Keeping Muscovy Ducks
- Catie79
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If you tell someone you have ducks, they immediately envision white, chubby cheeked Pekin ducks. Maybe they envision something with a bit more... -
Utilizing the Parrot Chop Principle to Improve Chicken Diets
- Jacquej57
- 5 min read
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Let me begin by saying I am NOT in favor of forgoing a commercial chicken feed for my girls. It would be difficult, if not impossible, for an... -
Top 50 Herbs for Your Chickens
- BYC Project Manager
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Herbs can provide a lot of health benefits to your flock of backyard chickens. Furthermore, they can save you money, keep your coop clean and... -
Egg failure to hatch - Diagnosing incubation problems
- sumi
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Diagnosing and troubleshooting incubation problems and hatch failures Eggs failing to hatch can be a disappointing and sometimes costly... -
The naturally good rooster
- AquaDuck
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A lot of people seem to have had negative encounters with roosters. Stories about roosters mating hens every 10 minutes, crowing at 3 am, picking... -
Heated nesting boxes help stop frozen eggs!
- RonP
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Last winter was unusually cold for my area, with days turning to weeks of temperatures way below freezing. My schedule allowed me to gather my... -
Introduction to Keeping Guinea Fowl
- irisshiller
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I used to think guinea fowl were just chickens with polka dots, but nothing is further from the truth! Guinea fowl are quite a bit different from... -
Broody Management - From the First Turkey Strut to Weaning the Chicks
- DobieLover
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Sterilizing hatching eggs
- Debbie292d
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Proving soaking hatching eggs in an Odoban solution won't kill a chicken embryo. -
Oxytocin as a bonding agent between us and our chickens
- azygous
- 5 min read
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What if there was a magic potion to get our chickens to love us? Perhaps there is. It’s called mesotocin, the bird version of oxytocin, the... -
10 Health Precautions For Backyard Chicken Owners
- CarolJ
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10 Health Precautions for Backyard Chicken Owners Note: This page is for people who have a suppressed immune system, asthma, COPD or any... -
Getting Chickens Out Of Trees.....and into their coops.
- Shadrach
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This is a picture of a chicken up a tree. She looks very at home up there. Makes a lovely picture. Shame about the photographer not getting the... -
Alternate method to prevent water freezing.
- R2elk
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If you have ground for your coop floor or in your run you can use this method to prevent water from freezing without the use of electricity. Use... -
Stuck egg! Collapsed egg hanging from vent! Prolapse! Oh my! What to do!
- azygous
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The last thing any chicken keeper wants to see is a favorite hen standing helplessly in a nest box with a frightening prolapse hanging out of her... -
Daily to weekly chicken maintenance.
- chickenmama109
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If you are thinking of getting chickens and want to know what it takes to keep them, this article will give you the daily to weekly maintenance... -
Winter-Coop-Temperatures
- patandchickens
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Pic by SyzyQlou The Cold Coop: What to do (and not do!) about it. The 'heat budget' of a chicken coop You can think of the temperature of your...