Tag: chicks

631: Feeding Chickens

A Farmer Friday interview with Nicole Gennetta: What do chickens eat? Nicole Gennetta explains that they are omnivores and can eat just about anything, so she answers that question by providing an important list of foods to avoid. She discusses how to safely prepare specific foods and prevent…

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How to Hatch Eggs

by Guest blogger: Pascale Pearce You like the idea of incubating chicken eggs to raise your own flock of backyard chickens but have concerns about the cost and difficulty factor. Hatching chicken eggs is fun and easy if you follow these simple guidelines.

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460: Pascale Pearce on Egg Incubation for Beginners

Making the hatching of backyard chickens easy and fun. – In this podcast: If you are not careful, you might find that hatching eggs can quite easily develop into a passion, just ask Pascale Pearce! She took a job that needed her to hatch eggs at least once, so she knew what she was talking about – and now…

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451: Brittney Schiff on Growing Food and Raising Animals

Having good clean fun on an urban farm. — In This Podcast: Awakening to the desire to grow their own fruits, vegetables, and meat, Brittney Schiff and her husband Stephen started with a few garden beds and chickens. Gradually this increased and they moved to a property that allowed them to…

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Following an Unexpected Path

By Guest Blogger Christine Heinrichs: John Lennon said, “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.” In my case, it was chickens that happened. Growing up in New York’s suburbs, I was a suburban kid who didn’t know any chickens. I was an adult, a single mother raising a daughter, when I settled on…

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