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Say Cheese! For Recent Reader Livestock Photos

Animals | Farm & Garden | Large Animals | News | Poultry |
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These Say Cheese contenders include cuddly chicks, winsome goats, some super hammy pigs and more, so check out this photo roundup from Hobby Farms readers!

How To Process Your Homegrown Chickens At Home

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You can beat inflation at the grocery store by raising and processing your own meat chickens. Here's how to process your homegrown chickens yourself.

Recipe: Goat Cheese Scrambled Eggs & Sweet Potatoes

Animals | Farm & Garden | Food | Poultry | Recipes |
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This breakfast recipe pulls together goat cheese, fresh herbs, scrambled eggs and sweet potatoes for a hearty, delicious dish.

Shutterclucks: Chickens Editors Choose Reader Photos

Animals | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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In the September/October issue of Chickens magazine, editors chose the best of the flock from submitted reader photos. Enjoy this gallery of beloved backyard chickens!

Chicken General Store: Fun & Helpful Poultry Products

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Check out these fun chicken-themed products, from fun dishes to coop deodorizer and more, in this recent General Store roundup!

Compost Chicken Manure Right For Valuable Nutrients

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Permaculture | Poultry |
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You can apply chicken manure to add valuable nutrients to the garden, but it's critical to properly compost it first to keep dangerous bacteria off your produce.

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

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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

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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.

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