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Boost Your Flock’s Health With Herbs

Animals | Poultry |
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Grow or forage specific plants around your coop and run so your flock can help itself to the myriad health benefits of herbs.

Build An A+ Diet For Chicks & Pullets

Animals | Poultry |
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Chicks can only reach their maximum potential for growth, good looks and egg-laying if they receive a proper diet.

How To Work With A Broody Hen

Animals | Poultry |
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If you want to raise your hatching eggs the old-fashioned way, you’ll need a hen with a special disposition to do the work.

5 Things You Need To Know About Africanized Honey Bees

Beekeeping
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Would you know an Africanized honey bee if you saw one?

3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Own Horned Goats

Animals | Large Animals |
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Horned goats are just terrible accidents waiting to happen.

It Takes A Virtual Village To Save A Bus Stop Rooster

Animals | Poultry | Urban Farming |
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Roosters are contraband within Portland city limits, but that didn't stop residents from swooping in and saving one in the midst of Oregon's coldest winter in years.

Bees Forage For More Than Just Honey

Beekeeping
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Honey gets all the attention, but bees have to forage for water and propolis, too.

Spring Means Farm Babies—And Multiple Births

Animals | Farm Management |
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One little piggy, two little piggies ... 12 little piggies? Count all the ways our livestock keep us busy in the spring.

3 Parasites That Can Infect Your Chickens

Animals | Poultry |
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Parasite infestations among a flock decrease egg production, affect bird health and in severe cases, cause death.

12 Herbs To Grow Around Your Chicken Coop

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Poultry |
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Enhance the health of your flock with these herbs perfectly suited for the coop.

Choose Your Livestock By Determining Your Market

Animals | Farm Management |
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It's important to consider how to market what an animal produces when considering whether or not to raise livestock.

25 Things You Didn’t Know About Honeybee Foraging

Beekeeping
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A honeybee foraging trip is an activity oh so important to the health of the hive—and the honey the bees make.

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