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Pros & Cons About Keeping Faverolles Chicken!

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Faverolles Chicken

As we promised in one of our previous articles this Monday we will give our readers an article about the Pros & Cons of keeping Faverolle chickens.

We at the typesofchicken.com team started these weekly articles about the pros and cons of keeping a particular chicken breed with the purpose of helping you with choosing the next addition to your flock.

This is why we are primarily focusing on chicken breeds that you can mostly find in more experienced chicken keeper`s flocks.

Chicken breeds that are famous for their egg-laying presence or friendliness, we at the typesofchicken.com team want to give you the best ideas for the next addition to your flock.

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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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3 Ways to Improve Your Chicken Coop – DIY Projects!

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Improve Your Chicken Coop

We at the typesofchicken.com team are focusing on presenting you some DIY projects that you will find useful and easy to make.

Before doing this article we were having a long discussion about which one of these projects we should present you with today, and what we decided is that we can stuff them into one article. We agreed upon this decision because we believe that our readers deserve our best.

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How to Make Your Own Automatic Chicken Feeder – 6 Easy Steps!!!

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Automatic Chicken Feeder

We at the typesofchicken.com team give our best to present to you some new ideas and stuff to add to your chicken coop. Until now we have given you a variety of articles with instructions about how to make toys for your chickens, waterer and such. Many of our readers have complained that they have problems with feces getting in their chicken feeder because their feeder is on the ground in the coop. So, here is an article on how to make your own automatic chicken feeder that removes that problem and is cheap and easy to make.

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How To & Why Should you Make Your own Chicken Tunnel!

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How to build chicken tunel

Some time ago we at the typesofchicken.com team gave you an article about how to keep your garden chicken proof, and some of our readers gave really nice feedback.

Along with the feedback came a few ideas that we truly found amazing, and one of those ideas was how to make your own chicken tunnel. After reading and somewhat understanding this idea, we at the typesofchicken.com team decided to share it with the rest of our readers.

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How to Make Your own Movable Chicken BROODER – DIY Project!

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chicken brooder

We at the typesofchicken.com team want to give our readers the cheapest, most creative and easiest to make DIY projects for their chickens.

Until now we have been primarily focused on projects concerning full grown chickens, for example projects like waterer and toys for your chickens.

Since we all know the issues of letting your chicks outside to free roam or just to peck (predator threats, health problems etc.), we at the typesofchicken.com team wanted to find a way to let our chicks eat, sleep and play safely outside.

So here it is How to make your own movable outdoor chicken brooder:

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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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11 Simple Games and Activities For Your chickens!

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chicken games

Keeping your chickens happy is very important for them, it affects their health massively and the quality of their eggs.

After a few articles about DIY toys for your chickens now it is time for us to share something with those readers who don’t have the room or the means to build their chicken toys.

It is never bad to give some extra attention to your chickens and the most fun way to do that is to give them activities and games when they are on their run. Chickens are omnivores, they love to eat almost anything and almost everything is safe for them to eat.

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How to Keep Your Chickens Entertained & 3 DIY Toys! – Part 2

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Some time ago we at the typesofchicken.com team gave you an article on How to keep your chickens entertained and 3 DIY toys and from your feedback, we came to the conclusion that you might want more.

We discussed what chickens do when they are bored so now we will skip that part and go directly to the toys.

Without further ado, here are the new DIY toys for your chickens brought to you by the typesofchicken.com team.

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