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Can Chickens Eat Table Scraps?

Animals | Farm & Garden | Health & Nutrition | Poultry |
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Here's What To Feed & How Much You Can Give Your Birds

This Cool Moveable Coop Keeps Chickens Happy

Animals | Chicken Coops & Housing | Farm & Garden | Poultry |
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Chris Brown of Castleton, Vermont, shares how an interest in chickens led to construction of a moveable coop from on-hand materials.

Tour The World With These 7 Egg Recipes

Animals | Farm & Garden | Food | Poultry | Recipes |
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Spice things up in the kitchen with these 7 egg recipes from various parts of the world, from a sweet French omelette to curried deviled eggs.

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.

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.

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.

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