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14 Toxic Plants Your Chickens Must Avoid!!!

Toxic Plants Your Chickens Must Avoid

Your free-range flock loves roaming into the garden and treating the marigolds, squash blossoms and dandelions like an all-you-can-eat salad bar. An abundant supply of fresh fruits, vegetables and garden greens is part of a balanced diet, but not all the plants in your garden are good for your chickens.

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5 Apps To Make You A Better Chicken Keeper!

Select breeds, monitor hatching and keep your coop organized with one of these apps, suited for beginning to experienced chicken keepers. First came computer programs that kept track of your calorie intake. Next, designers dazzled us with software that analyzed our sleep patterns, encouraged our exercise routines and monitored our marital fertility times. Is no stone … Read more

Keeping Your Chickens Entertained – Why Is It Important & How To Do It?

Chickens need their entertainment, it makes their exercise more fun and likable.

Toys for chickens can be many things even some form of a treat or an old piece of wood with some honey poured on it.

By providing toys for your chickens you can make them friendlier towards each other and you. Any positive change in the environment around them can be fun for your chickens.

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Chicken Gender – How To Tell

Chicken Gender - How To Tell

Are you wondering how to tell the sex of your chicks or older chickens? The question of gender is important to many chicken keepers for a variety of reasons, most commonly because roosters are either not allowed in the neighborhood or not needed in a backyard flock. In this article, we’ll look at a variety of chicken sexing methods that make it possible to determine the gender of chickens at various ages.

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When Raising Chickens – Beware of These Things!

When Raising Chickens - Beware of These Things

There are things that every chicken keeper needs to know in order to properly care for his/her chickens. We at the typesofchicken.com team decided to do an article on this subject in the form of When Raising Chickens – Beware of These Things!

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20 Useful Facts About Hens, Eggs And Chicken Mating!

Facts About Hens, Eggs And Chicken Mating

We at the typesofchicken.com team spend a lot of time researching the subject of our upcoming articles.

While doing that research we often stumble upon pieces of information that we don’t have room for in our articles so we just keep them – interesting facts about the process of chicken keeping and chickens in general. This is the second time we have collected a bunch of facts for our readers, some time ago we gave you 40 amazing facts about chickens and now it is time for us to give you 20 fun and useful facts about hens, eggs and chicken mating.

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Top 5 Reasons Why Keeping Chickens Is Great For You!

Top 5 Reasons Why Keeping Chickens Is Great For You!

Keeping chickens is not simple – it takes a lot of your money, time and strength. But if you do it properly it will absolutely be worth your while. We have discussed previously on many issues concerning chicken keeping as a process, How To`s and whatnot but we haven’t scratched one of the most obvious question that helps people decide on chicken keeping. Why to keep chickens is the first question that needs to be answered on this subject and we at the typesofchicken.com team apologize for being late on the matter, but without any further ado here are the Top 5 Reasons Why Keeping Chickens Is Great For You.

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How To Introduce New Chickens Into Your Flock

How To Introduce New Chickens Into Your Flock

Introducing a new chicken or chickens to your flock may prove difficult because the previously formed flock always want to keep their pecking order. The new chicken or chickens may get bullied and even killed in the first few days of being in your flock. However, there are a few things that a chicken keeper can do in order to prevent or lower the amount of bulling when introducing a new chicken or chickens to his/hers flock. This is what made us the typesofchicken.com team prepare this article for our readers on How To Introduce New Chickens Into Your Flock.

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When To Expect Your Hen To Lay Her First Egg – 3 MOST IMPORTANT Tips!

When To Expect Your Hen To Lay

It is not rare that a chicken lays its first egg too early or a bit late. This may cause many problems if a chicken keeper is not prepared to maintain the egg. To calculate the time when your hen will lay her first egg you will need to know a few things about that particular hen.  This is also a frequently asked question in our e-mails so these are the 3 MOST IMPORTANT Tips How To Know When To Expect Your Hen To Lay Her First Egg.

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Mistakes Chicken Keepers Tend To Make When Building Their Chicken Coops

Mistakes Chicken Keepers Tend To Make

Building your chicken coop is not very hard – all you need is some time, the right materials and of course the right source of information on how to do it. When chicken keepers make their coops they are aware of the crucial things a chicken coop needs to have, four walls, a window or two, a door and a roof. There are however, some things that some chicken keepers tend to forget or just are not aware of them that are very important for the well being of their chickens.

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