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Calling all crazy egg photos!
The grass is greening up, chickens are starting to lay…and the first few eggs of the year have a tendency to be funky. Stories have been rolling in about weird eggs — double yolkers, triple yolkers,...
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Managing spring grass
Before livestock entered my life, I never paid attention to the first green grass. But now, even when we don’t have our own chickens or goats, those tender sprouts in late February make me smile. Sure...
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A brief history of chickens
This Native American ceremonial pipe from nearly two thousand years ago doesn’t represent a domesticated chicken — just a prairie chicken. But it got me thinking about how deeply intertwined our lives...
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Turning a bucket chicken waterer into a feeder
I dropped by my mother-in-law’s coop the other day and took a look inside. “What an interesting feeder,” I said. “Where did that come from?”She explained that the feeder had actually started life as a...
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Why do roosters crow?
Did you ever wonder why roosters crow? Cliff Notes version: Their goal isn’t to wake the farmer up in the morning.Just like the song birds who drop by your bird feeder, male chickens use their songs to...
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Grazing chickens with cows
What’s the recipe for ultra-low chicken feed costs? In the spring, at least, our neighbor’s flock barely wants to touch anything other than high-energy (and cheap) scratch feed because they have so...
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What to expect when adding new chickens into a flock
Assuming you’re not willing to dispatch old hens, egg numbers inevitably decline to the point where you’re tempted to integrate new hens into the flock. But will they get along? What constitutes normal...
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Easy backyard egg money accounting
So many of us get into critters through love…while also harboring a hope that our livestock will pay for themselves. There are high- and medium-tech ways of keeping track of cash inflow and outflow in...
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What kinds of table scraps are safe for chickens?
Did you know that grass and insects can make up about 20% of a chicken’s diet in the summer months? Unfortunately, cooped-up chickens don’t have access to that same scrumptious feast. But you can fill...
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Build a DIY Chicken Waterer
Do you want to build your own chicken waterer without wasting time on trial and error? Then look no further! We’ve expanded and cleaned up the instructions file that that used to come in our DIY kits...
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