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How to Care for Cracked Eggs in an Incubator

How to Handle Cracked Eggs During Incubation Safely Incubating eggs is an exciting but sometimes stressful journey. I’ll never forget the first…

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Candling Eggs

is a fun and educational activity for both children and adults. When incubating eggs at home, candling ensures you keep only the…

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How to Sex a Baby Chick

6 Ways to Tell Hen or Roo Let me kick off this blog with a quick disclaimer: I’m no pro at determining…

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How Do Roosters Fertilize Eggs?

It’s no secret I love talking to people about all things chickens. I get so many great questions from people who are…

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Do Chickens Have Taste Buds?

Today, we get to talk about a fascinating topic. I get asked quite often about things chickens can and cannot eat and if…

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What is the Bloom on an Egg?

Chickens are absolutely incredible, and their ability to create and lay eggs is almost mind-blowing. Seriously, until we started raising backyard chickens,…

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Understanding the Pecking Order in Chickens

Shortly after I got my recent flock of chickens, I quickly decided to add more chicks to my flock. It was quite…

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A Chicken from Outside to Inside

People are familiar with mammal anatomy. After all, we are one. Dogs and cats are common companions and have body features, like…

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Dinosaurs Had Combs Too: A Look at Chicken Combs

Imagine a 36-foot-long duck billed dinosaur with a bright comb on its head strutting around the yard. Those enormous beasts roamed North…

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Clipping Feathers

There are many reasons why you may need to clip your chickens’ wings.  Chickens escaping their run, flying up into feed containers,…

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