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Chickens really live their best lives when they are free ranging outside. Unfortunately, not everyone has the option of letting their chickens…
Imagine a 36-foot-long duck billed dinosaur with a bright comb on its head strutting around the yard. Those enormous beasts roamed North…
There are many reasons why you may need to clip your chickens’ wings. Chickens escaping their run, flying up into feed containers,…
Daylight Saving Time itself does not affect chickens, because their clock is the sun. Shorter autumn days do: they trigger molting, cut…
Chickens are beautiful, friendly (most of them anyway), and wonderful birds. But they are also very messy! I feel like Pinterest chicken…
The pros of raising backyard chickens far outweigh the cons in my opinion! However, at some point, you’ll likely deal with an…
Ever heard of essential oils for flock health? Well, if you’re a seasoned backyard chicken owner, you probably have. It’s all the…
Fowl pox is a slow-spreading viral disease that causes lesions on a chicken’s unfeathered skin or inside the mouth and throat. Mosquitoes…
As I weeded a patch of string beans one July morning, sadness overcame me. The plants were loaded with beans, but the…
Broadcast feeding means scattering chicken feed on the ground instead of using a feeder. Feed only what your flock eats in about…
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