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Molting: Know Its Causes & Help Your Flock

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Molting is a fact of life with chickens. Learn what happens — and how to help your birds — when the feathers start to fly.

Agricultural Education: 3 Ways to Help Local Schools

Animals | Poultry | Urban Farming | Waterfowl |
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Many school district budgets don't cover agricultural education. As a chicken-keeper or farmer, you can give elementary school students a start.

Protect Your Bees & Hives From Bears

Beekeeping
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Bears looking for honey can cause a great deal of damage and break up your colonies of honeybees. Here are ways to prevent that.

Want to Raise Pigs? Here’s What You’ll Need

Animals | Equipment | Farm Management | Large Animals |
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Are you considering adding pigs but you're not sure where to start? Here are basic pointers to get your farm and yourself hog-ready.

A Chicken Feeder For Your Table: 9 Chicken-Themed Items

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Bring the flock inside and show visitors your chicken enthusiasm with a decorative feeder, farm-themed wallpaper, a rooster planter and other items.

Shutterclucks: Editors Choose The Best Chicken Photos

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Our editors asked for chicken photos, and readers responded. This round has what looks like a school portrait, hens in golden twilight and a real statesman of a white rooster.

So You Trapped a Predator of Your Chickens. Now What?

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If you catch a predator such as a raccoon in a live trap, there are local and federal laws (as well as safety concerns) that guide what you do next.

College Campuses Participate in Protecting Pollinators

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Bee Campus USA, an extension of the existing Bee City USA, has faculty, staff and students educate the public and create habitats beneficial to pollinators.

Author Shows How & Why “Happy Pigs Taste Better”

Animals | Farm Management | Homesteading | Large Animals | News |
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Alice Percy provides detailed instructions for humanely raising pigs on pasture in a book that's valuable to homesteader and commercial farmer alike.

Grow, Dry & Prepare Catnip for Yourself & Your Cat

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Homesteading | Large Animals |
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Whether you want to pour yourself a cup of catnip tea or make your kitty a catnip-stuffed toy, this is one versatile purr-ennial.

Security Checklist: No Chicken Coop Is Impenetrable

Animals | Poultry |
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Raccoons persisted until finding a way into one of our coops and killing all but 2 chickens. Here are potential weak points and how to secure them.

4 Steps to Replace the Rooster in Your Flock

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Predators or other extreme events can unexpectedly claim the life of your rooster. These tips will help you swiftly find a new flock leader.

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