Backyard Poultry Coloring Pages 2017
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Breed Profile: Sussex Chicken
Reading Time: 2 minutes Breed: Sussex chicken Origin: Sussex chickens are one of the oldest English breeds known, and originated, appropriately, in the County of Sussex around the turn of the 20th...
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What Can You Feed Chickens?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Originally published in Backyard Poultry April / May 2017. Subscribe for more helpful tips like this! What can you feed chickens? is a common question and many beginning chicken...
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List: The Best Chicken Names — A to Z
Reading Time: 14 minutes Dreaming up the perfect baby chick names is one of the most exciting parts of starting or adding to a flock. If you need inspiration, our readers and fans are here to help....
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Beginner’s Equipment Guide to Raising Chickens for Eggs
Reading Time: 6 minutes What is the best bedding for chickens won’t be the only question you have as you set up your first brooder. As you await the arrival of your new chicks, you will most likely be...
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Chicken Clothes for Halloween and Christmas
Reading Time: 8 minutes By Wendy E.N. Thomas – Olivia Dougherty, who lives in Delaware, Maryland, created her chicken clothes for a contest, sponsored by Cooptastic, one of the nation’s premier...
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The Phantom Chicken of London: Tastes Like Spooky!
Reading Time: 4 minutes What has feathers, a British accent and goes cluck in the night? When we booked a trip to England this past summer, I wasn’t thinking, “Hey, let’s check out some ghost poultry...
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Can Chickens Eat Pumpkin Seeds & Guts?
Reading Time: 2 minutes When raising backyard chickens, it’s important to understand what to feed chickens to keep them healthy on a daily basis. But they absolutely love pumpkin, which is loaded with...
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Breed Profile: Rhode Island Red Chicken
Reading Time: 3 minutes Breed: Rhode Island Red Chicken Origin: As you might guess, the Rhode Island Red origin is the East Coast in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Rhode Island Red chickens are as...
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Can Chickens Eat Cranberries?
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s the holidays and cranberries are everywhere. Can chickens eat cranberries? Yes. They make a great treat by themselves or mixed in other recipes. Chickens...
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How Blue Eggs Get Their Color
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 4 minutes Chicken eggs come in many different colors Growing up in New England, I lived across the street from my grandparents’ chicken farm. I am not sure which...
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Can Chickens Eat Oatmeal?
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 3 minutes Can chickens eat oatmeal? Yes. They certainly can! Oatmeal for chickens is one of my favorite treats to serve my flock in the winter. Warm oatmeal for chickens...
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Raising Turkeys with Chickens – Is it a Good Idea?
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 4 minutes Raising turkeys with chickens has been discouraged for years, but despite that, many homesteaders are going back to a mixed flock approach. There are some...
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12 Days of Christmas — Meaning Behind the Birds
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 12 minutes By Christine Henrichs – Understanding the 12 Days of Christmas meaning adds something special to this favorite traditional carol. Its repeating verses make it...
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6 Ways to Prepare for Raising Chickens in Winter
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 3 minutes As winter is soon to set in, fall is useful for making some necessary preparations. Raising chickens in winter has its challenges, but these six tips for fall...
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Twas the Night Before Christmas — Chickens Edition!
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 3 minutes With apologies to Clement C. Moore. The following should prove to all the children out there that Santa visits good chickens, too. I’ve changed some of the...
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How to Start Raising Chickens For Eggs
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 4 minutes More and more people, in both rural and urban areas, are starting to raise chickens. Raising chickens for eggs is a great family project and an easy way to be...
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10 Hilarious Chicken Questions (Like Why Are Some Eggs Brown?)
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 4 minutes We recently asked our Facebook fans to tell us some of the funniest questions they’ve heard from folks that don’t raise backyard chickens. We heard some great...
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