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    [Videos]Introduction to Poultry Keeping: Guides on Raising Chickens

    The goal is to find and include useful videos that are informative explaining chicken how-to. If you come across any, please include them here. In my meanderings, I found this one and felt it was valuable for sharing. Backyard Chicken Workshop: an Introduction to Poultry Keeping
  2. IRChicken

    Retrospective Look at Meat Birds: Chicken of Tomorrow (Video)

    Chicken of Tomorrow was a contest to improve chicken meat production. During World War 2 there was a shortage of red meat causing a national food problem and chicken was seen as a way to fill the gap for that shortage. This video showcases the modern meat poultry beginnings. I found it...
  3. IRChicken

    Colorado Cantaloupes Killed 13 People, More Deaths Expected

    Sept. 28--With 13 confirmed fatalities so far, a series of listeria illnesses linked to recalled Colorado cantaloupes has become one of the deadliest food-related outbreaks in decades. Before the toll is finished, it might be surpassed since the early 1970s only by the more than 50 deaths from...
  4. IRChicken

    High-Protein Poultry Feed From Thin Air

    Lots of flies around? Collect some kitchen slops -- cooking water and juices and leftovers from meat and fish dishes, some milk: anything that will go really putrid if you leave it for awhile. Then leave it for awhile. When it stinks really badly, gather some compost materials, say 4-5 cubic...
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    Modifying or Adjusting Your Feed...

    There are times when you need to add to the chickens feed diet, like for winter, for disease or for other health reasons. Can the diet be modified to improve egg laying or is this a chicken limitation? For instance, a diet of 1 part each of scratch, laying crumble, and turkey grow has been...
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    China Says Duties on U.S. Poultry In Line With WTO Rules

    Chicken related news: China said the nation's duties on American poultry are “in line” with rules by the World Trade Organization after the U.S. filed a complaint with the trade arbiter about the Chinese taxes. The complaint targets Chinese anti-dumping and countervailing duties on American...
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    Running Chicken Nebula: Telescope Images from the ESO

    Chicken related news: The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning new image of the colorfully named "Running Chicken Nebula," a.k.a. IC 2944, or the Lambda Centauri Nebula. Like most nebulae, it's a big clump of glowing gas and dust, and somewhere deep within its gassy...
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    Chicken tests positive for West Nile Virus

    Chicken related news: Anastasia Mosquito Control District officials said a sentinel chicken has tested positive for West Nile Virus. Jacksonville has had several confirmed cases of the virus, including two confirmed deaths, but this is the first known case of the virus here this year. The...
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    19-year-old gets 3 years' probation for setting live chicken on fire

    Chicken related news: A grim Superior Court Judge Michael Annis told 19-year-old James Henthorn to imagine the horrible pain of having your entire body set on fire. “What you did was something extraordinarily cruel to an innocent creature,” Annis said before delivering the sentence. Assistant...
  10. IRChicken

    Will there be a News section?

    I was wondering if there will be a News section for Chicken related happenings? For instance, China's trade embargo on U.S. chicken imports or Avian Flu resurgence in Vietnam, Cambodia and China. Just a thought.
  11. IRChicken

    Raising chickens in Newport News, VA may run afoul of the law

    NEWPORT NEWS — Michael Morris picked up his brown-feathered chicken, Gladys, and petted her like a cat or dog. "These are my pets," said Morris, who feeds the chickens apples and grapes. "I enjoy watching them interact. They all have different personalities. They're not very bright, though."...
  12. IRChicken

    Cottonwood, AZ to permit chickens by the dozen

    COTTONWOOD -- Chickens will become more common in Cottonwood if the City Council moves on its current track. Tuesday, the council reviewed a proposed ordinance that would allow up to six chickens in R-1 and R-2 residential zones. But by the end of the evening, the council was proposing that...
  13. IRChicken

    Westmont Man Jailed Over Chickens

    A Westmont man gets in trouble for keeping chickens outside his home — and ends up at Camden County Jail.That's something to squawk about. Except the full story’s not so simple. In fact, if you're looking for villains here, you may have to settle for some noisy roosters. This saga begins in...
  14. IRChicken

    Chicken Fan Fights City Hall

    Leslie Crawford and her two white-leg hens have a good deal going. In exchange for a little feed and a cozy coop in an island paradise, the snowflakes, as she calls them, provide her with two fresh eggs a day. After eight months, the hens have produced more than 450 eggs. This was more than her...
  15. IRChicken

    Hello

    Hello BYC, I look forward to learning more and contributing to this community. Keeping chickens has become a new interest for me and am researching a lot. I visited the local county agricultural extension and inquired about raising chickens in my city and they said to go for it. Next, they...
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