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If you’ve kept chickens, you’ve almost certainly caught one mid dust bath: sprawled in a shallow pit of loose dirt, kicking soil…
After your big Thanksgiving get-together, what do you do with all that extra food? Unless you’re a terrific menu planner, chances are,…
The chicks are now 6 weeks old and moving their tractor everyday has become a part of my daily routine. It is…
Joining FFA and 4-H is an excellent way to improve your agricultural knowledge, meet people with the same interests as you, and…
Our Rudd Ranger chicks are turning from babies into teenagers right before our eyes! They are growing more “real” feathers, and just…
If you want turkeys that hatch their own babies and put flavorful meat on the table, heritage turkey breeds are exactly what…
Almost every backyard keeper starts out with a firm number in mind. Six chickens, maybe ten, absolutely no more. Then spring arrives,…
Watching your chickens go through their first fall molt is genuinely alarming if you don’t know what’s happening. Feathers everywhere, birds looking…
This week the Rudd Rangers are turning 7 weeks old, with about 5 weeks left until processing day. This week they have…
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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