treehugger.com BBC sportHi Keepers, the most viewed post on this site is Egg Bound Treatment Works, it has also had the most responses or replies, this came through yesterday and I wanted to share it with you all, incase you didn’t see it in the reply section, it was posted by Penny. Penny’s Post I have just had [...]
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Hello keepers, readers, I ‘d just want to say Thanks, Tena Koe, Merci, Danke, Gracias, Dank, ευχαριστίες , ありがとう, Cпасибо and Obrigado, to all of you out there for reading my blog, sorry to any languages i’ve left out, babelfish only covers certain ones. I’m overwhelemed by the amount of people who are interseted in chicken [...]
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Moulting or Molting, english or american spelling, it still results in the same, feathers everywhere. For those who are unaware of the process, moulting occurs normally once a year, can happen twice depending on the climate. The bird will gradually shed a considerable amount of it’s feathers, I have noticed it generally starts with the [...]
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After the WWII the people of Britain were still on rations into the 50′s, so after seven or so years of powdered eggs, it seems the spoils of war didn’t include food for the people, of course everyone had been so busy building weapons they didn’t have much time for farming. To combat this new [...]
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Well a big thankyou to all visitors to the chicken keeper, the site got it’s five thousanth visitor today, which is almost a year to the day I started the site, I didn’t really get going properly on it til November 2008, it had only had 7 views until then, so the figures have primarily [...]
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Hi chicken keepers, or prospective chicken keepers, I recently read a report from an american publication, about a dispute between neighbours in the city of Salem, where the city by-law says the keeping of farm animals is prohibited, domestic pets only. The owner of the hens is disputing that they are penned the whole time, and are [...]
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Hi Keepers, as it is summer now in this part of the world it’s holiday season, and we are going off camping. It’s the first time we’ve left the chickens, fortunately we have a great friend with chicken keeping experience who is going to look after the place while we’re away. It feels a bit [...]
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