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Extend Your Grazing Time With Seasonal Pastures

Animals | Farm Management | Large Animals |
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Planning different pastures with different grasses for cool and warm weather can keep animals grazing nutritious green grass longer.

Hatching Chicks the Old-Fashioned Way

Animals | Poultry |
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Hatching eggs with an incubator is pretty easy. But with a broody hen, you can experience one of nature’s exciting life cycles.

Never Keep Livestock as Pets … Except When You Do

Animals | Large Animals |
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Getting too attached to livestock is not in a farm's financial interest, but I made an exception for a boar named George Clooney.

8 of Our Favorite Children’s Books Featuring Chickens

Animals | News | Poultry |
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Encourage and enhance your children’s excitement about raising chickens by introducing them to reading through these picture books featuring their feathered friends.

Use a Trap to Protect Your Chickens From Raccoons

Animals | Farm Management | Poultry |
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Raccoons are common poultry predators. Here are tips on how to trap and handle these masked bandits eager to get at your flock.

Use Clicker Training to Condition Your Goats’ Behavior

Animals | Large Animals |
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Want your goats to hop onto the milking stand at your cue or be loose-leash pack animals? Try clicker training.

Egg Gadgets: I Test My 5 Newest Acquisitions

Animals | Poultry |
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A poacher, a peeler, a ring, a slide—I see how five new egg-related products perform when it comes to cooking, storing and preparation.

5 Key Aspects of Feeding Cattle

Animals | Large Animals |
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Cattle are ruminants that can do well on a wide variety of forages, but these basic things warrant consideration on any regimen.

Goose Breed Profiles: Get to Know the Sebastopol

Animals | Breeds | Poultry |
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The Sebastopol is known for its beautiful feather pattern. It's a slightly smaller breed that's more friendly than some others.

The Smell of Success: Control Coop Odor in Heat & Humidity

Animals | Poultry |
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A heatwave mixed with rain made our henhouses reek, which motivated me to test various treatments to control coop odor. See which won.

5 Ways to Help Bees Without Becoming a Beekeeper

Beekeeping | Crops & Gardening |
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There are many simple, inexpensive ways to draw native bees and honeybees to your yard. Here are some tips—none requiring a bee suit.

Plant the Best Milkweed Species for Monarch Butterflies & Bees

Beekeeping | Crops & Gardening |
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A new study finds which types of milkweed most benefit these pollinators as well as the best places in the garden to plant them.

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