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    Silly food themed names for chicks!

    Over the years I had several buff-laced Wyandottes with buttery names - Butterscotch, Butternut, Buttercup, Buttermilk, Butterball. Also Pumpkin, Nutmeg, Chantilly cream, Gingerbread, Honey, Crunchie, Milkybar, and Rhode Island Reds Minot and Merlot. I didn't particularly intend to use food...
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    How can i hatch my grocery store bought chicken eggs

    One other thing I've done is to include several non-fertile eggs in the test run. I don't know for sure that the extra mass makes any difference (mine is a forced-air incubator) but I think it might. Plus of course when chicks are growing inside the eggs they start to generate heat of their own...
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    Comment by 'ChickensinmygardenNZ' in article 'The Egg Float Test'

    You are so right! I refrigerate unwashed eggs fresh eggs within a day of being laid. During the summer I accumulate lots of eggs. I eat the oldest while storing fresh ones. When my chickens go off the lay I can still be eating eggs. I challenge anyone to tell the difference between a fried...
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    Review by 'ChickensinmygardenNZ' in article 'Top Ways To Keep Your Chickens Cool In Summer'

    I have a question about sand. Lots of people say sand is cool but if you've ever walked across the beach on a sunny day you know sand can be scorching under foot.
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    Store bought egg experiment

    The sex chart using XX to denote female and XY to denote male is correct for mammals, including humans, but not birds. Birds are ZW for female and ZZ for male - so if you're used to mammalian genetics it feels backwards.
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    Review by 'ChickensinmygardenNZ' in article 'Raising Chickens on a Shoestring'

    This is a mix of a few good ideas, a lot of information that is really too sketchy to be useful and some terrible advice - Chickens locked up separately in battery cages at night on wire footing? PLEASE NO! Readers, please don't do that! Chickens can be raised on a shoestring but no matter...
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