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Daily Care

Why Do Chickens Need Dust Baths ?

If you’ve kept chickens, you’ve almost certainly caught one mid dust bath: sprawled in a shallow pit of loose dirt, kicking soil…

Seasonal Planning

Thanksgiving Leftovers Chopped Challenge

After your big Thanksgiving get-together, what do you do with all that extra food? Unless you’re a terrific menu planner, chances are,…

Growing Your Flock

Week 7 With Rudd Rangers

The chicks are now 6 weeks old and moving their tractor everyday has become a part of my daily routine. It is…

Growing Your Flock

What Poultry Can Do For Your FFA and 4-H Experience

Joining FFA and 4-H is an excellent way to improve your agricultural knowledge, meet people with the same interests as you, and…

Growing Your Flock

Week 4 With New Chicks

Our Rudd Ranger chicks are turning from babies into teenagers right before our eyes! They are growing more “real” feathers, and just…

Getting Started Choosing Your First Breed

Heritage Turkey Breeds: A Complete Review for Backyard Raisers

If you want turkeys that hatch their own babies and put flavorful meat on the table, heritage turkey breeds are exactly what…

Advanced Topics

How to Integrate Your Chicken Flocks

Almost every backyard keeper starts out with a firm number in mind. Six chickens, maybe ten, absolutely no more. Then spring arrives,…

Health & Wellness

How to Manage Molting Season

Watching your chickens go through their first fall molt is genuinely alarming if you don’t know what’s happening. Feathers everywhere, birds looking…

Growing Your Flock

Week 8 With Rudd Rangers

This week the Rudd Rangers are turning 7 weeks old, with about 5 weeks left until processing day. This week they have…

Advanced Topics

Buffalo Gnats: Should You be Concerned for Your Birds?

For several weeks in late spring and early summer, gnats, flies, and other nuisance insects make their arrival known. Most are exactly…

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