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Pelletized Bedding / ShavingsI've been using straw bedding for about a year now. Hens like it and when it is fouled, it goes around the plants. The straw decomposes and the...
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Wholesome homemade feed 2Thank you for providing this update! I opened it as soon as you posted it, but only tonight did I read the entire piece. I’ll be learning a lot...- tranquiliti
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Killer in the Shadows. How My Flock and I Learned to Deal With Marek's DiseaseYou are to be commended. You have done all you can do and I salute your determination. There is the line of thought that resistance or a degree...- microchick
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Killer in the Shadows. How My Flock and I Learned to Deal With Marek's DiseaseBecky, I was guided to your article by another member here. I've read your article as well as all of the comments since. I know it's been a few...- omi4500
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How To Introduce New Chickens to an Existing FlockA beautifully and even professionally written article! I was thinking of writing an article myself on this very topic for a contest, and I read...- BigBlueHen53
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Wholesome homemade feed 2Suitable explanation of the nutritive benefits of homemade flock feed, backed with data from testing. I may become a convert yet!
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How Bad Are Snakes?Very informative! I love the message. It could use a bit of editing, mostly punctuation such as when Logar said "cat like" when they should have...
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Learning Center
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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How To Raise Chickens
- BYC Support
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Raising Chickens 101 – All the info you need to get started raising chickens. Choosing a breed, hatching eggs, building a perfect coop & more! -
Name That Chicken! A Guide to Improving your Identification Skills
- pipdzipdnreadytogo
- 12 min read
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. Name That Chicken! A Guide to Improving your Identification Skills Take a look at the picture below. What do you think? Is this a picture of... -
Accessorizing Your Run- How to Make Your Run More Fun For Your Chickens
- Bloveschickens
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Today many urban chickens are not able to free-range, they are confined to a run. Many people do not have enough space to let their chickens... -
Do Poultry Mourn Over The Loss Of A Flock Mate?
- TwoCrows
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Do Poultry Mourn? It has long been known that Elephants do indeed mourn their fallen comrades as do... -
Integrating new birds at 4 weeks old
- aart
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Integrating as young chicks is much much easier than older birds, setting the space up to facilitate might not be so easy but well worth the... -
Herbs, Flowers, and Weeds for Chickens
- Mountain Peeps
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Herbs, Flowers, and Weeds for Chickens Chickens are scavengers. Foragers. Omnivores. They eat herbs, flowers, and weeds along with insects and... -
Common Rooster Myths - Clearing Up Rooster Misinformation
- Pyxis
- 7 min read
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Keeping a rooster can be fun and rewarding, and they are often great additions to the flock, and beautiful to boot. However, there is a lot of... -
Chicken Coop Ventilation - Go Out There And Cut More Holes In Your Coop!
- patandchickens
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Patandchickens' Big Ol' PageVENTILATION Or, Go out there and cut more holes in your coop! Now! Really truly! Why is ventilation such a big... -
Sour Crop, Impacted Crop, Doughy Crop - Prevention and Treatments of Crop disorders
- TwoCrows
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Crops And Their Story Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treating Crop Issues The Crop. Just what IS a Crop, what do they do and why do birds have them... -
"Hentirement"
- Kuntry Klucker
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When acquiring a flock of backyard chickens most people are excited about the farm-fresh eggs they will be collecting from their own girls. Not... -
Understanding Your Rooster.
- Shadrach
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The reader needs to be aware that these observations and conclusions are taken from a particular chicken keeping arrangement which was conceived... -
Safely Administering Oral Medications to All Poultry and Waterfowl
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Safely administer oral meds to poultry and waterfowl with our guide. Learn tools and step-by-step instructions. Keep your birds healthy! -
Cleaning and storing fresh eggs
- sumi
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Cleaning eggs Sometimes, in spite of our efforts to provide a nice clean spot for our feathered friends to deposit the rent in, we'll get a... -
How To Tame Chickens from the Start
- Mountain Peeps
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How To Tame Chickens from the Start Many chicken keepers these days have friendly, tame flocks of birds they consider to be their pets. People... -
Nest Boxes; why do we make a sitting hens job so difficult?
- Shadrach
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Hens have been laying eggs, sitting on them and and hatching them for centuries without human interference. Considering their ancestors the jungle... -
Chicken bully/chicken victim - a two-sided issue
- azygous
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Just as school officials often overlook the importance of dealing with the victim of bullying in a school situation, we chicken folk often neglect... -
My $10 Inexpensive DIY Fodder Tower with Dollar Tree Dish Bins
- gtaus
- 8 min read
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I have been reading great things about making barley fodder for the chickens. After much thinking, I decided to build my own fodder tower out of... -
Bee's key points to successful and safe free ranging.
- Beekissed
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You really need the right breeds/birds, the right rooster or dominant hen, the right place, the right dog, the right perimeter fencing(if in...