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5 Boredom-Busting Super Treats For Chickens

Poultry
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If there’s not much for your free-ranging chickens to forage for this winter, sub in these super-healthy treats instead.

Charcoal For Chickens

Animals | Poultry |
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If you’re burning for a supplement to give your chickens, try lighting up some hardwood.

How to Make Beekeeping & Chicken-Keeping Intersect

Animals | Beekeeping | Poultry |
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With a little planning and preparation, you can have a buzzing hive alongside your clucking coop.

Eggstra Credit: Chickens’ Role In Schools

Animals | Poultry |
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Educators across the country are learning that chickens make great teaching tools.

How To Use Sand As Coop Bedding

Animals | Poultry |
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Your chickens are already accustomed to sand in their dust baths—now they can have it on their coop floor, too.

Your Easy Guide to Backyard Eggs

Animals | Poultry | Waterfowl |
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Chickens, ducks or geese—whichever birds you decide to raise, you can count on delicious, nutritious eggs.

How To Set Up A Brooder For Fall Chicks

Animals | Poultry |
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With careful attention to heat and light, you can successfully jump-start your flock in fall instead of spring.

Dorking Chickens: A Superior Meat Bird & Layer

Animals | Poultry |
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If you’re looking for a dual-purpose bird calm enough to keep in your backyard, the five-toed Dorking is sure to be a hit.

How to Train Your Chickens

Animals | Poultry |
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Your chickens are more than bird brains—train them to do more than peck and scratch. Here are the basics of training your chickens.

Chicken Feather Loss Has Causes Other Than Molting

Animals | Poultry |
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Feather loss in chickens could be a sign of molting or a more dangerous condition. Learn how to tell the difference with these cues.

Raise a Goose to Guard Your Flock

Animals | Poultry |
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Large and loud, geese will keep many chicken predators at bay and alert you to other trouble.

Conserving Rare Chicken Breeds

Animals | Poultry |
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The Livestock Conservancy is focusing its efforts on saving rare chicken breeds—as well as other poultry and livestock—from extinction.

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