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National Flock Management

Keep your birds safe from storms

With the storms that are battering the south this evening, thoughts turn to how to keep your birds safe during inclement weather. Tornadoes and...
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Buying chickens: Auctions

If you have decided to add more birds to your flock, visiting the auctions is one of your options. But before you decide that this is the way...
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Too many roosters? Soup, anyone?

Whether you raise birds for meat or egg layers, there will come a time when you find yourself with too many roosters. Too many roos means too much...
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Dioxin in eggs - further farms in Europe are closed

  • eggs
  • January 16, 2011
A further 1,000 farms have today been closed in the German 'feed scandal', as it has been found that ingredients contaminated with dioxin...
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Had enough snow? Start thinking about Spring!

For people with chickens, the recent snow in the Atlanta and North Georgia area has probably overstayed its welcome. You' ve been dealing with...
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Winter chicken feed crisis - what to do?

The snow that dumped unceremoniously on the Georgia region this week was particularly heavy in the Cherokee County area - so bad in fact, that many...
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Baby, it's COLD outside! Feeding your chickens in cold weather.

The weather here in the Cherokee County and Atlanta area over the Christmas period has been amazing - in both a good and bad way. It was, for the...
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Urban Chickens 101: The heat and your chickens

A crowd of black & lavender Orpingtons around a fresh waterer. Photo by R. Caldwell It's so hot the chickens are panting. Okay, maybe not right...
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