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Recipe: Commit To This Marry Me Chicken Recipe!

Animals | Farm & Garden | Food | Poultry | Recipes |
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This Marry Me Chicken recipe—skillet chicken with sundried tomato and an oregano cream sauce—is so good it's liable to inspire nuptial invitations!

3 Chicken Feeder Designs To Fit Your Needs & Budget

Animals | Chicken Coops & Housing | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Health & Nutrition | Poultry | Poultry Equipment |
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If you're considering chickens but unsure what feeder is right, check out these 3 chicken feeder types for your needs and budget.

What To Do (& Not Do) When Building A Chicken Tractor

Animals | Chicken Coops & Housing | Farm & Garden | Poultry |
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When this chicken-keeper decided to build a DIY chicken tractor using salvaged materials, not everything went smoothly. Here's what worked and didn't in this DIY build.

Ducks Do A Lot At 10 Maple Acre Homestead

Animals | Beginning Farmers | Farm & Garden | Homesteading | Poultry |
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Calum McCaskill of 10 Maple Acre Homestead tells us how poultry helps keep his family's homestead ticking over in Ontario, Canada.

Joining A Poultry Community Provides Plenty Of Benefits

Animals | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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A plethora of poultry groups, clubs and organizations exist online, but which chicken-keeping community is right for you? We look at 6 different types.

Raise & Market Specialty Poultry For Meat & Profit

Animals | Farm & Garden | Poultry | Poultry Equipment | Waterfowl |
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Chickens are the obvious poultry choice, but there's a strong market for specialty poultry, too, such as goose, quail, guinea fowl and more.

2 Families, 2 Flocks: Different Plans For Chicken-Keeping

Animals | Chicken Coops & Housing | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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These two families employ very different plans to their chicken-keeping endeavors. Both work well, so read on for tips for your own flock!

Shutterclucks: Chickens Editors Choose Reader Photos

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Poultry |
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In the March/April 2023 issue of Chickens magazine, editors chose the best of the flock from submitted reader photos. Enjoy this gallery of beloved backyard chickens!

How To Give Your Chicken A Belly Rub

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Health & Nutrition | Poultry |
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Just like dogs and other domestic animals, a chicken will enjoy the occasional belly rub—so long as the bird trusts you to do it right.

Chicken General Store: Chic(k) Poultry Products

Animals | Chicken Coops & Housing | Farm & Garden | Poultry | Poultry Equipment |
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Check out these fun chicken-themed products, from custom portraits to a welcome mat to a pop-up brooder and more, in this recent General Store roundup!

Can You Identify This Mystery Chicken Breed?

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Poultry |
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Do you know this mystery chicken breed? A popular auto-sexing breed, this layer of lovely blue eggs is attractive, prolific poultry.

From Feeding To Sleeping, Chicks Have Unique Behavior

Animals | Chickens 101 | Farm & Garden | Flock Talk | Poultry |
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It's important to raise chicks in a flock of multiple birds, as much of their developmental behavior is based on learning together.

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