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How to Help Your Chickens Through a Molt

Have you noticed that your chickens start to lose some of their feathers late in the summer every year? A couple times…

Seasonal Planning

How to Easily Prepare Your Chickens for Winter

How to Keep Chickens Warm in Winter Without Extra Heat Winter is coming! If you believe the Old Farmer’s Almanac, we’re in…

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Five Easy Ways to Deter Poultry Lice & Mites

Five Ways to Deter Poultry Lice and Mites Naturally There are several types of poultry lice and mite parasites that love infecting…

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Egg Color and Quality: What Every Backyard Chicken Keeper Should Know

If you raise a backyard flock, you already know there is nothing quite like the eggs your “girls” provide for your family.…

Gardening With Chickens

It’s August! What in the world? Where did the summer go? I’m torn between being ready for 2020 to be over (with…

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Keeping Your Flock Safe From Predators

Chickens are a wonderful addition to any farm or backyard. Chickens, however, attract not so wonderful critters to your farm or backyard.…

Seasonal Planning

Happy National Egg Day!

I know…I realize it seems like there is always something to celebrate, and sometimes I lose track of all of our national…

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How to Keep Chicken Water from Freezing in Winter

Just like us, chickens enjoy sipping cool, clean water throughout the day. What surprises many new flock owners is how much they…

Growing Your Flock

10 Reasons You Should Raise Quail

10 Reasons to Raise Quail for Eggs, Meat, and More Do you dream about raising birds, but you can’t raise chickens in…

Seasonal Planning

Making Heart Shaped Eggs & Toast for Your Valentine

Valentine’s Day is almost here. Now, I know that many people don’t care for this holiday, but I don’t fall into that…

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