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Pros & Cons About Keeping Cochin Chickens!

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Keeping Cochin Chickens

This has been a long-awaited Monday especially for us, at the typesofchicken.com team, because the breed we are going to write an article about today is one of those breeds that made us start to love keeping chickens.

The Cochin chickens were most of the chickens of my first flock and they are the ones that made me keep chickens as pets not only as means to get eggs and meat. The first chicken I named was a Cochin – Bucky.

So without any further ado, these are the Pros & Cons about keeping Cochin chickens.

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Why are Pet Chickens becoming more popular?

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Pet Chickens

Speaking for my wife and I, we initially rescued some ex-battery hens, destined for who knows where, at an auction, they didn’t cost us much, one little lady had no feathers on, and we didn’t buy them expecting any eggs, that was the whole reason the commercial egg farmers were auctioning their girls off in … Read more

Raising Chickens for the First Time – Common Mistakes & How to do Better

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raising chickens for the first time

We all make mistakes on a daily basis, which is not good, but still very real. Mistakes are there to be made, but the consequences can be very bad. It usually depends on how a big mistake it was indeed. We usually learn from the mistakes we made and move on, but when it comes … Read more

Ultimate Guide On How To Care For Your Pet Chickens

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When Raising Chickens - Beware of These Things

Chickens are wonderful, comical creatures that have been domesticated for thousands of years. While keeping backyard chickens was common 100 years ago, in the 1950s the advent of factory farming and inexpensive store-bought eggs led to a decline in its popularity. Recently, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in keeping one’s own chickens, … Read more

Most Common Chicken Diseases & Symptoms!

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Most Common Chicken Diseases

Chickens are very prone to illnesses and that is no secret. Especially when weather changes occur you can surely expect that the chances of your flock getting sick are bigger than before. Many experienced chicken keepers are aware of this fact and have gone deeper in the subject by analyzing and taking notes of the most common chicken diseases and the symptoms for the same.

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Motivating Hens To Hatch Eggs

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Hatching Chicken

Chicken keepers speak a great deal about broody hens. As a rule, it is talking about approaches to demoralize broody conduct.

Since a large number of us need eggs from our chickens, a broody hen can be a mishap to the egg program.

Not just do broody hens stop laying for the measure of time it takes to bring forth an egg (21 days) however it can likewise be tedious to inspire them to begin laying once more, regardless of the possibility that the eggs they were attempting to incubate were not permitted to do as such.

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Which Building Materials Are Safe And Which Are Not For Chickens To Peck At!

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A big number of chicken keepers, especially the DIY type have experienced their chickens pecking at the materials that were used inside or outside of the chicken coop. This, in most cases, is not that important or bad for the chickens but from time to time chickens can peck at things that are build of materials that are unsafe for them and that can lead to more trouble soon after.

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How To Save Money While Raising Chickens – 5 Hacks!

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Many individuals promote raising chickens as a prudent approach to give eggs and meat to your family. While this is valid and the advantages of raising chickens do exceed the costs, the misguided judgment is by all accounts that chickens require for all intents and purposes no venture and will create unfailingly, which is basically not the situation.

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