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Clucking Christmas: Making the Holidays Safe and Fun for Your ChickensVery helpful information.
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Frostbite: What to Know About Injury, Care and RecoveryDo you want to know how many chicken and hog barns have gone up in flames just this year near me due to added heat???? I WILL NOT run a heater in...
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Cedar Acres Coop!So many great pictures and explanations that would help anyone build this. I really love the additions of decorations too, and the ending of what...
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Darkstar's PalaceNice coop/run. We'd need some instructions of how you built this and a blueprint of sorts to show dimensions. It's also lacking pictures of the...
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The Hoop CoopThis looks great but I'd need more build pictures and instructions of how you did it.
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Old Fashioned Red BarnIt's a cute coop, but not enough or good pictures of the inside and there's no instructions of how you built it.
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How To Raise Mealworms
- Gallo del Cielo
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How to raise mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) Everyone who has a small flock of chickens should raise mealworms, not because they need them, but... -
Guide to Letting Broody Hens Hatch and Raise Chicks
- Pyxis
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Using a Broody Hen to Hatch and Raise Chicks A broody hen is a great way to hatch chicks for you and your flock. She will do all the work... -
Do ducks like boats?
- WVduckchick
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So, this story starts with my neighbors wanting to get rid of an old dilapidated boat. She just wanted it out of their yard. It had a good motor... -
How To Raise Chickens
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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! -
Poultry Ownership and Dealing with Loss (From a Tenderhearted Farmer)
- orrpeople
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There really could not have been a worse scenario for the first death we experienced in our backyard flock. Prior to owning chickens, I had read... -
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... -
Name That Chicken! A Guide to Improving your Identification Skills
- pipdzipdnreadytogo
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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... -
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
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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... -
Norwegian style chicken coop
- Gailens
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Welcome to my chicken coop. Coop is located in Latvia, so winters here my be freezing. That's why I have to built it insulated. Coop size is 13' x... -
Safely Administering Oral Medications to All Poultry and Waterfowl
- casportpony
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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! -
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... -
Herbs, Flowers, and Weeds for Chickens
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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... -
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... -
Honeymooners Turn Old Garden Shed into Palace for Super-Spoiled Pets
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In the first year of our marriage, Dear Husband received this hen-scratch conception in a love letter that proposed we build a coop sometime next... -
Common Rooster Myths - Clearing Up Rooster Misinformation
- Pyxis
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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... -
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... -
"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...