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80How to Butcher a Chicken, Part 1: Preparing Your Work Space; Killing, Scalding and Plucking Chickens
Butchering a chicken takes commitment. While not a hard process, is it messy, smelly, and can be time consuming. It is best done outdoors, unless you want your house to smell like raw chicken (and everything...
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89Raising Heritage Breed Turkeys
Raising pastured, organic heritage breed turkeys for food and profit on the homestead. Sustainable farming methods, pastured poutlry and ethical treatment lead to higher quality and healthier meat.
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84Meat Cooking Chart ~ How Long and at What Temperature You Should Cook Meat
Are you tired of the guesswork when it comes to cooking meat? Do you ever worry about your family's health and fear that maybe your meat has been undercooked? Maybe you try to remedy the situation and...
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87Bantam Chickens
Bantam chickens have been domesticated for centuries. In fact, they are one of the oldest known domestic animals. Marco Polo wrote about banties in his journal. While all bantams are chickens, not all chickens are banties.
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78The Unknown Cousins
Red foxes are well known to most people, especially here in the United States, even if they aren't an animal we see everyday. What isn't thought about much, is the fact that they are wild relatives of the...
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85Chicken Tractors; Free Range Chickens Safely!
When we moved to our dream farmhouse I had no idea what a chicken tractor was. I just knew I looked forward to getting heritage breed chickens so that I could gather the organic eggs every day. I dreamed...
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79Raising Light Brahma Chickens
I have been raising chickens over five years and have worked with many breeds of poultry. Most people start out in search of a good egg layer and think nothing about the personalities of the chicken. Same...
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78Raising Guineafowl In Urban Backyards
Backyard poultry hobbyists may wish to expand their poultry flock beyond the typical chicken, goose and duck species and experiment with raising gamebirds. One popular gamebird species is the guineafowl....
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75Raising Ducks for Beginners
In the United States, a whopping 20+ million ducks are raised every single year. Many of these ducks are raised on commercial duck farms, but more and more backyard poultry hobbyists are discovering the joys...
84The World's Debt To The Hen
The greatest egg laying machine mother nature gave to the world -- The White and Brown Leghorn Chickens For much of recorded history, and untold centuries, the lowly chicken hen, has been a companion of man...
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