These last-minute poultry gifts are perfect for the chicken lover in your life and still shipping for timely holiday delivery. The post 10 Last-Minute Gifts for Your Chicken-Loving Loved...
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Raise Mealworms and Delight Your Chickens
With little cost or effort, you can raise live mealworms to provide your backyard chickens for much less than you’ll pay for the store-bought, dried treats. The post Video:...
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Worm Composting
Vermicomposting as a means to turn household and commercial waste into a highly valuable soil amendment....
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Can You Identify This Mystery Chicken Breed?
Do you know this breed? This ancient Japanese chicken with striking tail and distinctly handsome colors and combinations is most often kept as an ornamental breed. The post Can...
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75 Tips For Successful Chicken-Keeping
To celebrate 75 issues of Chickens magazine, we present 75 expert chicken-keeping tips to help you enjoy your backyard poultry! The post 75 Tips For Successful Chicken-Keeping appeared first...
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Goat Deworming and How to Monitor Your Herd for Parasites
One of the most common, and preventable, causes of early death in goats is parasites. Worms can infect a goat and cause anemia, dehydration, starvation, and death. Unfortunately, there...
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Getting Started with Goat Breeding
When it comes to growing a goat herd there’s a few rules of thumb to follow to help your caprines get the job done. On the other hand, goats...
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The Three Goat Diseases Every Goat Owner Needs to Know About
Whether you’re new to the goat world, or you’ve been here a while, there’s a lot of fear-based information about common goat diseases. While there are a handful that...
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How many cows can I keep per acre?
How many head of cattle can you keep on your pasture? It is a question that we often need to solve if you have a limited amount of land...
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Grazing Methods – Which one is right for you?
As you’re probably aware there are a number of different types of grazing systems or methods out there. Each of these popular grazing methods have pros and cons and...
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