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  • The Chicken Chick Essential Coop™

  • Buffalo Gnats Killer Black Flies & Backyard Chickens

    Protecting Chickens from Killer Black Flies: Buffalo Gnats

  • The Ultimate Chick Brooder Setup

    Ultimate Chick Brooder Setup VIDEO

  • VIRULENT NEWCASTLE DISEASE: THE POULTRY GRIM REAPER

    Virulent Newcastle Disease: The Poultry Grim Reaper

  • Bee stings in backyard chicknes

    Bee Stings in Backyard Chickens

  • Salmonella & Backyard Chickens: Keep it in Perspective

    Backyard Chickens & Salmonella: Keep it in Perspective

  • Automatic Coop door opener | The Chicken Chick®

    Automatic Chicken Door Opener: Gail Damerow Reviews the ChickenGuard

  • Feather Duster Chick Strangulation Hazard

    How Feather Dusters are Dangerous to Chicks

  • Grafting chicks to a broody hen

    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

    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

    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

  • Gail Damerow How Chickens & Honey bees are the same, only different

    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

  • straw is not for chickens

    Reasons Straw Does Not Belong in Chicken Coops

  • DIY Poultry Nipple Drinker Stand

    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 or Not?

    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

  • Electric poultry netting

    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

  • Control and Treatment of Worms in

    Control & Treatment of Worms in Chickens

  • Better Connecticut Television Appearance with My Peeps!

    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

  • 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

  • Fight to Legalize Backyard Chickens

    Fighting to Legalize Chickens: Proposed Regulation Commentary, 5/18/15

  • How to Care for an Injured Chicken

  • Chick Picking Causes, Prevention & Solutions

  • Freezing eggs when the hens are firing on all cylinders ensures a steady supply of eggs in the lean months. If you have chickens in your backyard, there is never an excuse for getting caught buying eggs from the grocery store. So, let’s take a look at how to freeze and use fresh eggs!

    How to Freeze Fresh Eggs

  • Causes of Lash Eggs & Salpingitis by Annika McKillop DVM, MSpVM, DACPV

  • Backyard Chickens & Avian Influenza: What to Do About Bird Flu

  • Natural Chicken Keeping: Herbal Mentors

  • Chicken Coop Design Essentials, Details & Luxuries

  • 20+ Winter Boredom Busters

    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

  • Salpingitis & lash eggs in backyard chickens- The Chicken Chick®

    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

    10 Winter Chicken Care Mistakes to Avoid

  • Landscape Gardening with Chickens

  • Front Page News refusing to bend to unreasonable government demands

    Backyard Chickens, Front Page News. Flock Focus Friday 8/22/14

  • Wing Clipping: Whether & How to Clip a Chicken’s Wing Feathers

  • The Chicken Chick's Sweet Coop® zeolite

    Naturally Sweeter Coops & Healthier Chickens with Sweet Coop® Zeolite

  • Cucumber Tetherball: Chicken Boredom Buster

  • 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?

  • 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 commission to legalize chickens

    Argument to Zoning to Legalize Chickens 9-20-13

  • Nest Box Solution: CHICK TV

  • Caring for Broody Hens: Facilitating Egg-hatching

  • For Strong Eggshells, Size Matters | The Chicken Chick®

    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 | The Chicken Chick®

    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

    Egg-Eating Chickens- How to Break the Habit

  • The truth about pumpkins, worms and chickens

    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-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

    Hatch-along with The Chicken Chick, Part 6: The Longest Week

  • Hatch along with The Chicken Chick, Part 5

    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

    Hatch-along with The Chicken Chick, Part 3: The Hatching Eggs

  • Hatch-along with The Chicken Chick: Part 2, Roosters, Broodies & Incubation Basics

  • Sand The Chicken Coop Litter Superstar

    Chicken Coop Litter: Sand, the Litter Superstar

  • My Favorite Photos of Baby Chicks

    My Favorite Photos of Baby Chicks

  • Farm Fest 2012: Celebrating Our Farming Roots

  • Chicken-Treats-Guide

    Chicken Treats Guide. Don’t Love Your Pets to Death.

  • Poultry Lice and Mites Identification and Treatment

  • Preparing for a Chicken Feed Recall | The Chicken Chick®

    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-Skunk Solution | The Chicken Chick®

    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

    The Broody Breaker- When a Hen’s Mood to Hatch Should be Interrupted

  • Poultry nipple drinker

    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

    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

  • Upcycled Feed Bags Uses - The Chicken Chick®

    Re-purposed Chicken Feed Bags

  • EGG BLOWING 101 & Egg Decorating instructions

  • Supplemental light to support egg production - The Chicken Chick

    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

    Got FLIES? Vanilla Scented Christmas Trees in the Chicken Coop

  • How to Hardcook & Peel Fresh Eggs EASILY

  • Bumblefoot causes, prevention & treatment in backyard chickens | The Chicken Chick®

    BUMBLEFOOT in Chickens: Causes & treatment. **WARNING: Graphic Photos**

  • Buck Buck the Chicken

    “Buck-Buck the Chicken,” a children’s book, read aloud

  • Integrating new chickens into an established flock | The Chicken Chick®

    Integrating New Chickens into the Flock: The Playpen Method

  • Egg Candling with an LED flashlight. Includes embryo development pictures

  • DIY PVC feeder - The Chicken Chick®

    My PVC Chicken Feeder. DIY instructions!

  • Virtual Tour de Coop

  • Chicken Math: It's a force of nature

    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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