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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! -
How to treat sour crop and impacted crop and how to know which one you're dealing with
- azygous
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Diagnosing the crop disorder A hen is behaving lethargically, not eating much, if at all, but she has a full crop. This is the first sign... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Making the Tough Calls - Difficult but Essential
- Blooie
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In a mad frenzy of enthusiasm - that's how we seem to dive into the world of raising chickens. It is so exciting – and scary! For most of us... -
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... -
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... -
Wichita Cabin Coop
- baldessariclan
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WICHITA "CABIN COOP" A simple, secure, easy-to-use home for any small backyard flock. WICHITA CABIN COOP 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!! The... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
My $10 Inexpensive DIY Fodder Tower with Dollar Tree Dish Bins
- gtaus
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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...