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Caring For Baby Chicks with Pasty Butt

December 27, 2021 · Lisa Steele · Feed & Health

If you are new to having backyard chickens and just starting out caring for baby chicks, you should be aware of a potentially life-threatening, but easily treatable condition that is fairly common, affecting mainly shipped day-old chicks.

Prepare for Mail Order Hatching Eggs

April 23, 2025 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Eggs & Meat

Expand your flock and enjoy incubation. In my experience, buying hatching eggs is the best way to acquire exactly what you want.

Can Chickens Eat Weeds?

April 15, 2025 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Feed & Health

Can chickens eat weeds, and can chickens eat dandelions? Weeds are an often overlooked part of a chicken’s diet. Save money on feed costs by learning what weeds chickens can eat.

Can You Have a Duck as a Pet?

April 11, 2025 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Ducks

Can you have a duck as a pet? Everything you need to know before bringing home your webbed-footed friends.

How Long Do Laying Hens Live?

April 11, 2025 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Chickens 101

Learn how long laying hens live, how to care for old laying hens, and at what age to cull chickens.

Natural Pain Relief for Birds

April 10, 2025 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Feed & Health

Learn how to recognize the subtle signs of a chicken in pain, and have natural pain relief for birds ready to mitigate pain as soon as we suspect it’s a problem.

Poultry Hybrids

April 10, 2025 · Doug Ottinger · Poultry 101

The parents must be within the same scientific family and usually within the same genus for hybridization. In most cases, artificial insemination was used to make interspecies or intergeneric crosses.

Peacock Mating Rituals

April 10, 2025 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Poultry 101

Learn about peacock mating rituals, the male peacock dance, and what captures peahen attention.

Ask the Experts June/July 2024

April 9, 2025 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Ask The Expert, Poultry 101

Carla Tilghman, Ana Skemp, and Audra Trosper answer your poultry questions about egg eating, lash eggs, raisins as treats, and lime water after water glassing eggs.

Poultry News June/July 2024

April 9, 2025 · Kenny Coogan · Eggs & Meat, Poultry News

This time in poultry news: learn about a proposed bill to protect Oklahoma poultry companies, the danger of washing raw poultry at home, and the human-chicken relationship.