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Valerie Shaff’s Professional Tips For Photographing Chickens

Animals | Farm & Garden | Poultry |
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New York-based animal photographer Valerie Schaff reveals five key things you can do to take better pictures when photographing chickens.

Flying Feathers: A Few Facts About Chicken Molting

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Health & Nutrition | Poultry |
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Learn more about molting, the natural process in which a chicken sheds old feathers and grows new ones, by Chickens magazine editors.

Battle Of The Bulge (Pt 2): Overweight Cattle Challenges

Animals | Farm & Garden | Large Animals |
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What happens when a fattened steer is too fat? Learn about some of the health challenges that overweight cattle can suffer from.

The Honest Truth About Serama, 3 More Chicken Breeds

Animals | Breeds | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Poultry |
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In this final "honest truth" about popular poultry, we recount experiences keeping Rhode Island Red, Golden Comet, Barred Plymouth Rock and Serama chicken breeds.

Chickens “Better Than A Soap Opera” At Cats & Cluckers

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Poultry |
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Sarah Hock from the Washington-based homestead Cats and Cluckers tells us about the virtues of a life surrounded by poultry.

Chicken Chat: Building A Flock From Humble Beginnings

Animals | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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After a move to rural Tennessee, Alison Davis and her husband decided to get six layer hens—and their chicken flock just grew from there to include free-ranging chickens and even ducks.

Setting Up An Egg CSA For Your Community

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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Give your flock a job by setting up an egg CSA for feed funds, good food for your neighbors and food production education for those who want to know more.

Video: Basic Fall Flock Maintenance For Your Sheep

Animals | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Large Animals | Video |
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Fall is a welcome break from summer's stressful conditions, so seize this opportunity to do some basic flock maintenance on your sheep to get them ready for breeding.

Quail Can Be Perfect Poultry For Those Without Land

Animals | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Health & Nutrition | Poultry |
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Want poultry but don't have the land for chickens? Quail are quiet, easy-keeping birds that you can raise for both eggs and meat.

Chickens Convey Humble Healing At The Chicks Next Door

Animals | Farm & Garden | Poultry |
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The Chicks Next Door farm founder Annie Dye talks about her star rooster, Napolean, and the secret to the irresistible appeal of rainbow eggs.

The Honest Truth About Marans, 3 More Chicken Breeds (Pt. 3) 

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Poultry |
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Looking at four more popular chicken breeds, we discuss real-life experiences keeping Dutch Booted Bantams, Japanese Bantams, Polish and Marans.

4 Apps To Help Manage The Farm From Your Phone

Animals | Equipment | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Foraging | Poultry | Poultry Equipment |
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Notebooks may be the proven way to track farm data, but you can manage your whole farm right from your phone with handy apps like these!

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