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Chicken Keeping

Raising Chickens

5 Mistakes Chicken Keepers Tend To Make

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Mistakes Chicken Keepers Tend To Make

After a lot of research and time spent we at the typesofchicken.com team have found stuff about chicken keeping that we liked and stuff that we didn’t like. Until now we have mostly shared facts, DIY Projects and Pros and Cons concerning a particular chicken breed.

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4 Tools Every Chicken Keeper Needs

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Tools Every Chicken Keeper Needs

We have said it many times before – we at the typesofchicken.com team want to provide our readers with information, ideas and DIY projects that can help them have the friendliest and most productive chickens in their own backyard. Keeping chickens in your backyard can be a burden as much as it can be fun, we know that, but what we at the typesofchicken.com team want to do with this article is to tell you what tools you need to have in arms reach to make your chicken keeping easier.

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Natural Or Artificial Incubation – Which One Is For Your Eggs?

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Natural Or Artificial Incubation

Well this has been the subject of many discussions for every chicken-keeping enthusiast novice or more experienced one. We at the typesofchicken.com team had a long discussion on natural or artificial incubation and which one is better and why. And because we really don’t like our readers disagreeing with us we decided to help you to decide for yourself by presenting you the good and the bad things concerning natural as well as artificial incubation. If you haven’t decided yet which one to choose this is the perfect article for you.

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Why Are Some Roosters Aggressive?

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Every chicken keeper, novice or more experienced one has had an issue with some aggressive rooster in their flock.

Not every rooster is aggressive but once in a while, some roosters have the tendency to become aggressive even if they are kept in the same flock since they were cockerels.

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5 Tips On How To Keep Your Eggs Fresh!!!

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How To Keep Your Eggs Fresh

Since I started having my own flock of chickens, I was surprised from the number of eggs my chickens produced and I have never intended to sell any of them and I am not intending to do so ever.

So when the eggs started piling up I did a little research on how to keep my eggs fresh after having them for some time. I believe that many of our readers have similar problems so that is why I proposed to my friends at the typesofchicken.com team to do this article.

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How do chickens mate: 4 Steps

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how do chickens mate

In our articles, we at the typesofchicken.com team have tried to touch on almost every subject about keeping a chicken in your backyard.

We have written about what to feed your chicken to get the best eggs, DIY projects (toys for your chickens, uses for chicken feathers, make your chicken waterer), etc.

A few days ago while having a discussion about our next articles we realized we never wrote about the most important thing every chicken keeper needs to know – how do chickens mate. This is what made us, the typesofchicken.com team focus this article on that particular subject. So without any further prolonging – How do chickens mate in 4 Steps.

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Fertile and infertile eggs: Differences & Similarities?

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Fertile and infertile eggs

Our readers pretty much enjoyed one of our previous articles about the egg yolk color and this made us – the typesofchicken.com team to do a lot of research aimed strongly towards eggs, the color, the ingredients and such.

Going through many pages of information we acquired we found a very interesting question, what is the difference between a fertile and infertile egg?
It took some time but we finally got to do this article, so without any further ado here are all the important differences and similarities between fertile and infertile eggs brought to you by the typesofchicken.com team.

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5 Myths About Chicken Keeping That Non-Chicken Keepers Believe! (that are completely false)

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5 Myths About Chicken Keeping

During the weekend an old college buddy of mine (who didn’t know I was keeping chickens) came to town with his wife and my family decided to invite them over for dinner.

When they came I was giving them the tour of the house and I showed them our flock – they were very surprised and started giving arguments about why they would never keep chickens or any animal other than cats and dogs.

As time passed this became our top subject over dinner and this is what made me present the idea about this article to my colleagues at the typesofchicken.com team.

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5 Tips How to Check Chicken Gender

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This is probably the most frequently asked question in our e-mails. Many of you wonder how is it that a novice backyard chicken keeper can differentiate if his chick is going to become a hen or a rooster.

Well, we at the typesofchicken.com team have prepared this article with some of the most accurate ways for you to check. Keep in mind that there is no 100% accurate way for you to find this out without any professional help.

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6 Cruel Steps The Egg Industry Is Using To Provide Product

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Egg Industry

Before I start this article I would like to say a few words from everyone at thetypesofchicken.com team. We are not vegetarians we – same as our chickens – are omnivores. We don’t judge vegetarians or vegans and we never will.  We decided not to support the egg industry by breeding our own chickens because we like to eat fresh eggs and quality meat. This article was written to motivate some people to breed their own chicken and one other reason – because we don’t like what the egg industry is doing to this species and we are sure that there is some less cruel way to mass-produce eggs.

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