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Chicken Treats Fun Police Retires!
The Chicken Chick Essential Coop™
Protecting Chickens from Killer Black Flies: Buffalo Gnats
Ultimate Chick Brooder Setup VIDEO
Virulent Newcastle Disease: The Poultry Grim Reaper
Bee Stings in Backyard Chickens
Backyard Chickens & Salmonella: Keep it in Perspective
Automatic Chicken Door Opener: Gail Damerow Reviews the ChickenGuard
How Feather Dusters are Dangerous to Chicks
Chicken Surrogacy: Grafting Chicks to Broody Hens
Foul Weather Dust Bath for Backyard Chickens
The Shocking Effect of an Oatmeal Breakfast on Chickens
Caring for Broody Hens in Extreme Cold
Nesting Material Matters for Backyard Chickens
The Effects of Mint on Chickens, Flies and Rodents in the Chicken Yard
Chickens Don’t Have Teeth and More Fun Digestion Facts!
Handling and Storage of Fresh Eggs from Backyard Chickens
The Effect of the Solar Eclipse on Chickens
Tips for the Care of Crested Chicken Breeds
The Right Way to Hold & Handle a Chicken
Chicken Picking Causes and Solutions
How Chickens & Honey Bees Are the Same Only Different by Gail Damerow
DIY Chicken Playpen Tractor
Legalizing Backyard Chickens from a Former Chicken Outlaw and Attorney
Reasons Straw Does Not Belong in Chicken Coops
DIY Poultry Nipple Drinker Stand
How to Humanely Euthanize a Chicken by Dr. Mike Petrik, The Chicken Vet
The Cut & Dry Truth about Diatomaceous Earth DE & Chickens
Whether to Heat the Chicken Coop in Cold Weather
Antibiotics Use Rules Change: What the USDA Veterinary Feed Directive Means for Backyard Chickens
Biosecurity for Backyard Chickens
Portable Electric Poultry Netting
How Altering Feed can Hurt Your Chickens
Making Eggs While She Sleeps: The Importance of Diet in Eggshell Formation
When & How to Trim a Chicken’s Nails & Rooster’s Spurs
How Much Heat Do Chicks REALLY Need? Think Like a Mother Hen!
Buying Chickens to Start a Laying Flock
Tips for Choosing Healthy Chicks
Pendulous Crop in Backyard Chickens
Hugely Exciting News! The Chicken Health Handbook, 2nd Edition!
Chicken Checkup: DIY Physical Exam
Alfalfa Soufflé Garland Chicken Treats
Control & Treatment of Worms in Chickens
Better Connecticut Television Appearance with My Peeps!
Flock Focus Friday 10/23/15 VICTORY!
The Chicken Chick, Life Out Here Brand Ambassador for Tractor Supply Company
Illustrated Glossary of Essential Chicken Terms
Bug Bites: Protein Bars for Molting Chickens
Fowl Pox Prevention & Treatment
About Aggressive Roosters
Arguing to Zoning Commission to Legalize Chickens Again, 6/19/15
Reality TV: Behind the Scenes with Coop Dreams
Chicken Health & Poultry Management Contacts by State
Hardware Disease in Backyard Chickens
Fighting to Legalize Chickens: Proposed Regulation Commentary, 5/18/15
Raising Chickens Naturally: Diatomaceous Earth is No Friend of Nature, by herbalist Susan Burek
How to Care for an Injured Chicken
Chick Picking Causes, Prevention & Solutions
How to Freeze Fresh Eggs
The Chicken Chick Celebrates National Poultry Day!
Causes of Lash Eggs & Salpingitis by Annika McKillop DVM, MSpVM, DACPV
Backyard Chickens & Avian Influenza: What to Do About Bird Flu
Fermented Chicken Feed: Why & How in 3 Easy Steps!
Natural Chicken Keeping: Herbal Mentors
Chicken Coop Design Essentials, Details & Luxuries
20+ Winter Boredom Busters for Backyard Chickens!
How to Help a Sick Chicken
Chicken Sweaters: Just Say No
Fascinating Facts about Eggs with an Egg-Laying VIDEO!
The Complete Chick Care Guide
Repurposed Chicken Feed Bag Christmas Stockings
Alfalfa Cake Protein Treat for Molting Chickens & Boredom Buster
Salpingitis & Lash Eggs in Backyard Chickens: The Pus Coagulegg
Children’s Chicken Library
Flock Focus Friday, 11/21/14 Lawsuit Update
5 Conditions Not Worthy of a Death Sentence: The No-Cull Zone
10 Winter Chicken Care Mistakes to Avoid
Landscape Gardening with Chickens
Backyard Chickens, Front Page News. Flock Focus Friday 8/22/14
Wing Clipping: Whether & How to Clip a Chicken’s Wing Feathers
Naturally Sweeter Coops & Healthier Chickens with Zeolite
Cucumber Tetherball: Chicken Boredom Buster
Frozen Fruit Smoothie, Helping Chickens Beat the Heat
Flystrike in Backyard Chickens, Causes, Prevention & Treatment
Chicken Mating: How Does That Work?
Chicken Anatomy: The Crop, Impacted Crop & Sour Crop
How to Sex Chickens: Male or Female, Hen or Rooster?
Raising Chickens Naturally- GARLIC with Herbalist, Susan Burek
The Chicken Chick in Poultryville, Part Deux: Reporting from P.Allen Smith’s Poultry Workshop
The Chicken Chick in Poultryville: My Invitation to Report from P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home!
Raising Chickens Naturally- The Inside Story from Its Pioneer, Susan Burek
Frizzle Feathered Chickens, Divas of the Chicken World
Say WHAT? A Video Guide to Understanding Chicken Chat
DIY Chicken Feeder for Brooder, Infirmary or Maternity Ward
Maximizing Space Available when Adding Chickens to the Flock
When Baby Chicks Need a Pedicure: Manure Balls.
Pasty Butt in Chicks: Causes,Treatment & Prevention
How to Build a Better Brooder for Raising Baby Chicks
How and When to Give a Chicken a Bath
Sprouting Grains for Chickens: Fodder for Thought
Virtual Poultry Show! A Day at the Northeastern Poultry Congress
5 Common Problems in Baby Chicks with Solutions
FROZEN EGGS: The Nest Box Cozy & Winter Food Safety Tips
Tips for Selecting Chicken Breeds-The Breed I Need!
Frostbite in Backyard Chickens: Causes, Treatment & Prevention
Merry Christmas from Me & My Peeps to You and Yours!
Chickens & Obesity, The Silent Killer: How to Avoid Fatty Liver Hemorrhagic Syndrome & Heat Stroke
Surviving Winter with Chickens
The Deep Litter Method of Waste Management in Chicken Coops
Answers from The Chicken Vet on Bacterial Infections and Introduction to Dr. Mike Petrik, The Chicken Vet
Where Did The Chicken Vet Come From and How did I Get Here?
Things I Wish I Had Known Before Getting Chickens
Argument to Zoning to Legalize Chickens 9-20-13
Molt Muffins for Chickens During Molting Season
Nest Box Solution: CHICK TV
Caring for Broody Hens: Facilitating Egg-hatching
For Strong Eggshells, Size Matters
5 Ways to Prepare for Chicken Illness, Injury & End of Life Decisions
Veterinary Care for Backyard Chickens, a Dialogue that Must Begin
Frozen Scrambled EggPops for Chickens
Grandpa’s Feeders: Protect Your Chickens & Wallet!
11+ Tips for Predator-proofing Chickens
Grandpa’s Feeders, Save Money on Feed & Protect Chickens from Disease
15 Tips to Reduce FLIES Around the Chicken Coop
10+ Tips for Healthy Chickens
5 Healthy Treats for Chickens AND 3 Food Myths, Busted!
15+ Tips to Control Rodents Around Chicken Coops
DIY Chicken Coop Flower Box
8 Tips for CLEAN EGGS from Backyard Chickens
Chickens, Predators & The Myth of Supervised Free Range
Chicken Anatomy: Nictitating Membrane, The Eyes Have it
Egg Float Test- Indicates Approximate Age, NOT Egg Safety
Spruce the Coop Herbal Fusion for Chicken Coop Nest Boxes
When to Move Chicks from Brooder to Chicken Coop
Scaly Leg Mites in Chickens, Identification & Treatment
Chicken Feather Loss & Cannibalism: Causes & Solutions
When Will a Hen Begin Laying Eggs? Watch for The Submissive Squat
Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks by Gail Damerow, Book Review
Probiotics, A Natural Choice for Healthy Chickens
Facts and Myths about Fertilized Eggs
Brinsea EcoGlow 20!
Repairing a Chicken’s Broken Beak
Chicken Dust Bath: The Ultimate Spa Treatment
Decrease in Egg Production: Causes & Solutions
Quarantine of Backyard Chickens: When and How
Christmas 2012
Keeping Brooder Water Clean- The Riser for Baby Chicks
Coccidiosis: What Backyard Chicken Keepers Should Know
Organic Lemoncello Enzyme Cleaner for Coops and Homes
The 12 Gifts of Chickens
6+ Ways to Make Your Chicken Coop Merry and Bright!
Coop Security: Hardware Cloth vs Chicken Wire
Feeding Chickens at Different Ages
Chicken Saddles & Chicken Diapers
Flock Block Substitute Recipe. Healthy Boredom Buster for Chickens
Egg-Eating Chickens- How to Break the Habit
The Truth About Chickens, Pumpkin Seeds & Worms
5 Tips for a Cleaner Coop with Less Effort
Autumn Chicks
Hatch-along with The Chicken Chick, Part 8 Hatch Day!
Hatch-along with The Chicken Chick, Part 7: Lockdown
Hatch-along with The Chicken Chick, Part 6: The Longest Week
Hatch-along with The Chicken Chick, Part 5: Be Prepared-Chicks Happen.
Hatch-along with The Chicken Chick, Part 1: The Addiction
Hatch-along with The Chicken Chick: Part 4: Egg Candling
Hatch-along with The Chicken Chick, Part 3: The Hatching Eggs
Hatch-along with The Chicken Chick: Part 2, Roosters, Broodies & Incubation Basics
Chicken Coop Litter: Sand, the Litter Superstar
My Favorite Photos of Baby Chicks
Farm Fest 2012: Celebrating Our Farming Roots
Chicken Treats Guide. Don’t Love Your Pets to Death.
Poultry Lice and Mites Identification and Treatment
Preparing for Chicken Feed Recalls- Safety First
Clean Water: The Advantages of Poultry Nipple Waterers
Chicken Egg Binding. Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, Prevention
Building our Quail Coop
Coop Training Chickens to Roost & Use Nest Boxes
Chicken Heat Stress, Dehydration and Homemade Electrolyte Solution
Chicken Nipple Waterer DIY Instructions- Clean Water is Always a Tap Away
De-Skunking Solution- Shampoo & Rinse for Skunk Victims
The Chicken Vet addresses Legalizing Chicken-Keeping
You might be a chicken addict if…
Upcycled Ladder Turned Planter
Diatomaceous Earth, DE. The Benefit/Risk Analysis from The Experts
The Broody Breaker- When a Hen’s Mood to Hatch Should be Interrupted
Why Water is Critically Important to Chickens
Prolapse Vent in Chickens: Causes & Treatment. *Graphic Photos**
Beat the Heat: Helping Chickens Survive High Temps
In Celebration of Spring and Spring Chickens
Answers from The Chicken Vet on WORMING
How to Reform a Bully Chicken
Droppings Boards, because Poop Happens
Chicken Nest Box Curtains- More than a Fashion Statement
Scissor beak aka: Crossed beak- What it is and How to Manage It
Answers from The Chicken Vet on VACCINATIONS
Rooster Fertility: The Tale of Max & the Scrambled Hatching Eggs
Chicken Embryo Development, views from the Inside AND Out. *Graphic Photos**
Baby Chick Basics. What you need to know to get started.
The Dangers of Brooder Heat Lamps & a Safe Alternative
Spraddle leg & Crooked Toes in Chicks- Causes and Treatments
Bad Egg in the incubator- a Ticking Time Bomb.
Bators and Broodies: Confessions of a Hatch-a-holic
What’s the Scoop on Chicken Poop? The digestive system examined.
Chicken First Aid Kit & Sick-Bay. Be prepared.
Chicken Tractor
How a Hen Makes an Egg & Egg Oddities.
Molting. What is it and How to Help Chickens Get Through It
Chicken Wire, Lighted Christmas Balls. ‘Tis the Season!
Make a Cookie Tin Waterer Heater. Under $10, & 10 minutes!
The Boston Poultry Exposition, November 6, 2011
Re-purposed Chicken Feed Bags
EGG BLOWING 101 & Egg Decorating instructions
Supplemental LIGHT in the Chicken Coop: Why & How
Araucana, Ameraucana or Easter Egger (Olive Egger,Rainbow Layer): What’s the difference?
Hurricane Preparedness for Backyard Chickens.
Got FLIES? Vanilla Scented Christmas Trees in the Chicken Coop
How to Hardcook & Peel Fresh Eggs EASILY
BUMBLEFOOT in Chickens: Causes & treatment. **WARNING: Graphic Photos**
“Buck-Buck the Chicken,” a children’s book, read aloud
Integrating New Chickens into the Flock: “The Playpen Method”
Egg Candling with an LED flashlight. Includes embryo development pictures
My PVC Chicken Feeder. DIY instructions!
Virtual Tour de Coop
Chicken Math, a Force to be Reckoned With
Let’s get chickens! Now, what about a coop…?
Which came first…contemplating chicken-keeping.
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