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Chicken Rental Services Make Chicken-Keeping Easy

Animals | Chicken Coops & Housing | Chickens 101 | News | Poultry | Poultry Equipment |
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Chicken rental delivers all the fun of keeping backyard hens without costly investments, upkeep concerns or anxiety-inducing ownership commitments.

Use The Pressure Canner To Process Chicken For Storage

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Food | Poultry |
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Your pressure canner can help you produce tons of delicious, shelf-stable cans of chicken (or other poultry) for easy storage of meat.

What Should You Do After An Unexpected Chicken Death?

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Try as we might to care for each chicken in our flock, sometimes unexpected death occurs. Here's how to respond if one of your hens should die.

Well-Managed Livestock Manure Is A Farmer’s Best Friend

Animals | Chickens 101 | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | Homesteading | Large Animals | Permaculture | Poultry |
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Dealing with animal excrement doesn’t have to stink! Put that livestock manure to work on the farm with management practices that yield nutrient-rich fertilizer.

Can You Identify This Mystery Chicken Breed?

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This cold-hardy breed lays cream-colored eggs and hails from a small village in France. Can you guess what it is? Read on for the answer!

How To Control Bugs On & Around Your Chickens

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Bugs, who needs ’em? Certainly not chicken-keepers, who sometimes struggle to keep pesky flies and poultry parasites at bay.

Feed Your Chicken Flock Right With These Tips

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What you feed, how you supplement and when you treat will make all the difference for your chickens. Follow these tips to feed your flock right!

These Chicken Breeds Thrive On The Homestead

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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Not all chicken breeds thrive on all homesteads, but this group of dual-purpose birds typically does very well in a small-farm situation.

Four Ways To Protect Your Chickens From Predators

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Are poultry predators causing you problems? Here are four tried-and-true ways to protect your chickens against predatory animals.

Grow These Tasty Plants In Your Chicken Run

Animals | Chicken Coops & Housing | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Health & Nutrition | Poultry |
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Your chicken run can provide plenty of nutritious plants for your flock, so check out these flavorful, shade-producing plants you can start growing today.

Solving Incubation Issues When Hatching Eggs

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Hatching eggs seems straightforward, and it's a fairly simple project—so long as you follow a few simple rules to ensure success.

Is Your Broody Hen Too Young To Hatch Eggs?

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If your hen keeps smashing eggs you hope you hatch, your girl may (for a few reasons) be just too young to serve as a broody. Here's why.

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