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How to make Fermented feedOkay, so just avoiding fluoridated water I guess. I've been making the fermented feed with Kalmbach's chick house reserve, and I take a bowl out...- Appalachickens
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Wholesome homemade feed 2Hi Madelyn; I'm glad you found these articles useful; that's the sole reason I wrote them. Finding sources at the start is very tough; plain...- Perris
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Moving or Separating Your Broody, and When To Do SoMost BYC keepers struggle the first hatches, with incubators as well as with broodies to get a good outcome. Some broodies do better then...- BDutch
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What to do when your flock is struck by FLYSTRIKE!It tells so much info about flystruck, now I have a idea of what to look out for.- D1N0
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Moving or Separating Your Broody, and When To Do SoVery helpful. I will certainly try to use this information for my next broody hen.- CreamLegbar
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Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard ChickensGood Article and I like the list. We do feed a little dry cat food but probably only several pieces each, 4 days a week. Thanks for the information.
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Chicken Behavior The Ignorant Gal's Guide To Things No Sane Person Would Tell You About Chickens
- madwomn
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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... -
Common egg quality problems
- sumi
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Approximately 2% of all chicken eggs have some defect, ranging from minor, barely noticeable faults to downright alarming deformities. So the... -
Chicken Math 101 – with Quiz!
- BaaKaaawk
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Dear esteemed colleagues, there is a well-known and documented phenomenon known as “Chicken Math” effecting our coops, though there is little... -
Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors
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My early brooders Six years ago when I got my second batch of day-old baby chicks, I thought I had arrived at the ultimate solution for a... -
Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry
- Pyxis
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Preface If you need immediate instructions on how to assist a hatch, you may skip this section and go to the next one, where the instructions... -
Candling Pics Progression Through Incubation Of Chicken Eggs
- silkiechicken
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CANDLING PICS: Progression Through Incubation Thanks to ZooMummzy, I am doing a test run of my little plywood bator and her little rooster... -
The Egg song, it’s not about the egg; it’s an escort call.
- Shadrach
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In the normal course of events, free-range chickens move around their territory as a group. The focal point of these groups is the senior rooster... -
Interesting Facts About Chicken Eggs
- Mrs. Mucket
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THE MULLIGAN
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*~*~WARNING~*~* This is a VERY long, PICTURE HEAVY coop build article. Brew a pot of coffee, get comfy and enjoy (I hope!) Less than one year into... -
Development of a Chicken Embryo Day by Day
- Pyxis
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This is an explanation of what is happening each day as a chicken embryo develops, complete with candling pictures. The egg I am using is a silver... -
What Happens When Chickens Molt?
- Mountain Peeps
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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... -
Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard Chickens
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CHICKEN TREATS This is a list of almost everything you can feed a chicken. However, everybody's chickens have their own tiny brains full of... -
How to treat sour crop and impacted crop and how to know which one you're dealing with
- azygous
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Diagnosing the crop disorder A hen is behaving lethargically, not eating much, if at all, but she has a full crop. This is the first sign... -
How Much Room Do Chickens Need?
- Ridgerunner
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I don’t believe in magic numbers for chickens. We keep them in so many different conditions, in different climates, with different flock make-ups... -
Who is Laying.....and Who is Not? Butt Check!
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I've typed this out many times in the past few days, so decided to put it in an article so I can link it in responses. Got pullets newly laying... -
A UFO Chicken Spaceship Coop that is Out of This World
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When we expanded our flock this Summer, we knew a larger coop would be necessary. As an artistic couple, I knew it couldn't be just any coop... -
Ten Reasons You Should Spend Ten Extra Minutes With Your Flock Every Day
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Let’s be honest: In the summer, when it’s hot and humid, it can sometimes discourage us from spending as much time with our flock as we normally... -
Buff Orpingtons Chicken Breed Information Pictures
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BUFF ORPINGTON HENS Revised 1/5/12 the Scarlett Johanssons of the chicken world... Raising Buffs as an entertaining, fun complement to a...