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Wholesome homemade feed 2No worries and you don't have to change your feed at all that is why I wrote "I would change personally" and essentially put a disclaimer as the...
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How "We" Correct Splayed Legs on New Chicks.Great tutorial. No need to isolate the chick though. If the bandage is put on at hatching, the chick will be safe (and a lot happier) to stay in...- Altairsky
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Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks OutdoorsGreat article!! For years I have raised chicks. Growing up I had hens hatch the chicks and that was always such a blast! I never thought about the...- Bambitracks
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Wholesome homemade feed 2Thanks for your feedback and advice. I wonder if you would be kind enough to supply some references for the nutritional profiles, digestibility...- Perris
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Wholesome homemade feed 2Good recipe and certainly better than so called "balanced" feed (with broken scales, lol) but there is a few things I would change personally...
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Guide to Assisted Hatching for All PoultryThank you so much for this detailed guide! It is a life saver.- crowers
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Top 15 Chicken Coop MistakesI am so happy that I have avoided all these pit falls my first year of chickens. We built a small 8x8 fully insulated (including human and...
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Cooler WatererLove this idea! It gets really hot in the summer where I live, and this will be the ticket to a happy flock.
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Teflon Poisoning in BirdsGreat article ensuring we know our non-stick cookware may not be labeled Teflon, but quite possibly still is. Having parrots for over 20 years, I...- Debbie292d
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Sick and tired of pesky mosquitos? Try this trick!!I'm all for anything to kill those pesky buggers! I think a "puddle" needs to be explained though as putting bleach in a puddle where frogs...
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Dust bathing – Why, where and how? Keeping your flock clean and happy.
- KayTee
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We all know that chickens love to dust bathe – and very frequently in the areas of our garden that we would prefer they didn’t! So why do they do... -
Introducing New Chickens: Using the “See but don’t touch” Method
- Mountain Peeps
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Introducing New Chickens: Using the “See but don’t touch” Method Chicken keeping is addicting. Along the road of your own chicken raising... -
How to Correctly Wrap a Chicken's Foot!
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Using Deep Bedding in a Small Coop
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PTFE Toxicosis (Teflon Poisoning) in Chickens
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What is PTFE? How can it harm my chickens? Polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE, often known by the brand name Teflon, is a synthetic polymer often... -
Yes, You Certainly Can Brood Chicks Outdoors
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I brooded my first chicks the way most of us learned to brood chicks...in the house, in a big box, with a heat lamp. It was a hoot at first... -
Cold Weather Poultry Housing and Care
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A How-to Article Part 1: building a coop Part 2: cold weather care Part 3: poultry and breed selection Link to my three coop pages... -
Information on Chicken Eyesight
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Chicken eyesight is amazing! They can see better in color than humans, can detect and see light and color shades better than humans, have three... -
Tips for Successfully Sexing Your Chicks
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Tips for Successfully Sexing Your Chicks Well, it’s that time of year. The chicks are in, we’ve fallen in love with their adorable appearances... -
Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching
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Deep Litter Method - The Easiest Way To Deal With Chicken Litter
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The Deep Litter Method DLM is basically a method in which you allow your coop litter to build up over a period of time. As the chicken manure and... -
Dealing with and Taming Aggressive Roosters
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We see it a lot here on BYC, "Help! My cuddly "Simon" the chick has grown up to be an aggressive monster! What do I do?!" The first step in... -
What a Chicken's Comb Can Indicate
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What a Chicken’s Comb Can Indicate The comb, or the red crown atop a chicken’s head, can indicate many things. But before we look at these... -
Why Join Back Yard Chickens? The Benefits Of Being A BYC Member
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The Top Reasons To Join BYC: Becoming a BYC member is FREE (click here) Fewer Ads Ask Questions - Get Answers Post Pictures / Show Off Your... -
Brooding Chicks: The First 6 Weeks
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Whether you've just hatched your own chicks in your incubator, an ordered batch of chicks from the hatchery has just arrived, or you brought home... -
Using Sand In Your Chicken Coop
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Using Sand as a floor covering in my coops has been one of the BEST decisions I have made in terms of how to properly care for my chickens... -
Utilizing the Parrot Chop Principle to Improve Chicken Diets
- Jacquej57
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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... -
Egg failure to hatch - Diagnosing incubation problems
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Diagnosing and troubleshooting incubation problems and hatch failures Eggs failing to hatch can be a disappointing and sometimes costly...