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Five Healthy Egg Recipes to Start the New Year

Well that year just flew by! How many of you have goals and resolutions for the upcoming year? Don’t worry, this is…

Seasonal Planning

How to Make Frozen Treats for Chickens

When summer heat rolls in, your flock feels it just as much as you do. Chickens tolerate cold far better than heat,…

Seasonal Planning

Can You Feed Pumpkins to Chickens?

Chickens on a farm can be like having a flock of small pigs in the backyard. They seem to eat everything and…

Seasonal Planning

National Eggs Benedict Day

It’s April and that means one thing…I know what you’re thinking…it’s National Eggs Benedict Day! Haha just kidding! You’re probably thinking about…

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,…

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…

Advanced Topics

What You Need to Know About Flystrike in Chickens

Today we’re addressing the not-so-beautiful side of raising backyard chickens. When most of us start researching the illnesses and injuries a flock…

Seasonal Planning

How to Keep Chickens Cool in the Heat

One Memorial Day weekend, an unexpected heat wave slammed the upper Midwest. All-time temperature records shattered as the mercury climbed near 100…

Egg Production

No Eggs in the Hen House?

It’s that time of year when we’re all getting anxious to be outside. Especially if you live in Minnesota where the winters…

Growing Your Flock

How to Raise Fall Meat Birds

Ever heard someone called a spring chicken? That phrase has a real origin. It was once standard to start meat birds in…

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