Poultry Advisory Group
If you have several years experience raising different types of chickens or other poultry, we would love to have your help with our online surveys. It’s easy to join the Poultry Advisory Group, just click the link. (You can unsubscribe at any time.)
If you’re looking for chicks or hatching eggs, check out our Directory of Hatcheries and Poultry Breeders and the Mother Earth News Hatchery Finder.
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Preparing Your Chickens for Autumn
Kenny Coogan: [00:00:00] You both have such a strong community around Coffee with the Chicken Ladies, what fall inspired topics are your listeners most curious about this time of year?Holly Callahan-Kasmala: Molting? Molting. Molting and more molting. And more molting? It’s, yeah, it’s always the, everyone’s really nervous about that.Chrisie Dicarlo: First time chicken keepers […]
The True Cost of Chickens
The True Cost of ChickensKenny Coogan: [00:00:00] Francesca, how are you practicing biosecurity measures at your place? Are there basic standard operating procedures that everyone should be doing to keep their birds healthy.Franchesca Duval: Oh my goodness. Yes. This ounce of prevention is worth the pounds and pounds of cure. Aven influenza is a really […]
Preventing Poultry Predators
Erin Snyder joins us on this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends. Erin and her family have raised chickens and ducks for nearly two decades. She is passionate about poultry nutrition, predator protection, egg laying disorders, and helping chickens live their best lives well into their golden years.
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Urban Chicken Predators
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Quails raised for meat and eggs in your backyard are friendly, inexpensive, and tender, and their eggs are in many places considered a delicacy.
Ducks or Geese for Farm Poultry?
Both are fun birds for the farm, but there are some key differences between ducks and geese.
