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Poultry Glossary

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Get you chicken jargon right with these must-know words.

Urban Roost Restrictions

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Check with your city's ordinances before constructing your chicken coop.

Using Agricultural Journals for Chicken Info

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Old agricultural journals are indexed online, making it easier than ever to find the chicken information you need.

Mooving Music

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My mom is writing a book about cows and she’s driving us crazy singing cattle songs!

Do a Livestock Dental Check

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Dental care is essential to healthy livestock, especially horses. Use National Pet Dental Health Month as your cue to check the teeth of all your farm animals.

Jadzia’s Crow

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When my daughter, Jadzia, was a little, bitty kid, she had a crow for a friend.

Goat Coats and Lambie Jammies

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This is the time of year when baby animals are born (hint: yesterday was Uzzi’s birthday and mine is March 4) and since it’s cold in barns, sometimes it’s hard to keep new babies warm.

Try Chickens

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First-time poultry raisers will find chickens an amiable match. Use these tips to get your coop started.

Absent Friends

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Last week was a sad, sad week at our farm. Our elder sheep, Baasha and Dodger, left for sheep heaven on Wednesday and Mom is as glum as can be.

Staying Warm

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Yesterday it was 52 degrees F. Yippee!

Brrrr—it’s COLD!

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This morning at 7 a.m., Uzzi and I looked at the thermometer and it was two degrees below zero, Fahrenheit!

Parasite Resistance Affects Farm Horses

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Keeping your horse parasite-free now entails more than your typical deworming methods.

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