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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

Diversify Your Farm By Growing Woody Ornamentals

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden |
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Add value to your farm's offerings by growing woody ornamentals, trees and shrubs grown specifically for floral sales. Here's how to get started.

Make Sure You Prep Batteries In Farm Machines For Winter

Equipment | Farm & Garden |
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Take care of batteries when cold weather strikes, and your machines will take care of you with reliable winter performance.

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.

Season Extension Keeps Your Garden Growing Into Fall

Crops & Gardening | Equipment | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Extend your growing season and get sweeter veggies by planting some cold-weather crops that actually improve with a touch of frost.

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.

Recipe: Spicy Green Tomato Pickles

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Food | Recipes |
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This recipe for spicy green tomato pickles is easy, delicious and makes good use of all those unripe tomatoes at threat from the coming first frost.

The Boreray Sheep Of Orkney (Excerpt, “The Lost Flock”)

Animals | Farm & Garden | Large Animals |
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In this excerpt from "The Lost Flock," author Jane Cooper recounts adding Boreray sheep to her flock and the resulting first-ever Boreray birth in Orkney.

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.

Celebrate International Off-Road Day With Your ATV, UTV

Equipment | Farm & Garden |
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Oct. 8 is International Off-Road Day, and we're celebrating with a roundup of helpful ATV or UTV articles from around HobbyFarms.com.

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