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Poultry

Getting Your Chickens to Get Along

Learn about steps you can take to make adding new chickens to your flock a smooth and stress reducing process.

Poultry

Keeping Your Chicks from Getting Sick: Top Health Concerns

It’s always good to at least be aware of these common chick health concerns.

Poultry

How to Pick the Best Baby Chicks

Here are some tips on what to look for and how to decide what chicks are right for you to get your own Chick Days going in the right direction.

Poultry

Top Reasons to be a Chicken Keeper

No matter why you choose to raise chickens, there’s a breed that will be perfect for you!

Beef Cattle

Feeding Dairy-Beef Cross Calves for Top Performance

Over the past few years, dairy farms have been benefiting from crossbreeding their dairy cows to beef bulls. Angus bulls are usually the breed of choice in these programs, however, I have seen a variety of other beef breed bulls used with similar results. When compared to straight bred Holstein

Beef Cattle

Tips for Using EnergiLass® With Your Cow Herd

EnergiLass® offers self-fed protein and/or mineral blocks to make supplementing your cattle easy. Here are 5 tips to help make your supplement program work for you.

Beef Cattle

Winter Bunk and Pen Management

Feeding cattle in winter weather presents a variety of challenges. Not only do we have a variety of forms of precipitation with which to deal, but we can have wild barometric swings that can have a large influence on feed intake.

Beef Cattle

Maximize Winter Grazing

Meeting cow herd nutritional requirements takes on many different forms depending on forage availability, location and management, and can be especially challenging with winter grazing situations.

Poultry

Winterizing Your Chicken Coop and Run

While chickens are extremely cold hardy and do well in most climates there are a few things you can do to keep your birds more comfortable during the winter months. Continue reading to learn a few tips and tricks to winterize your chicken coop and run.

What to Expect When You’re Eggspecting

Between 18-22 weeks your hens should start laying eggs. Continue reading to learn the importance of providing the proper nutrition to your “eggspecting” hens and what you can expect before, during, and after.

Poultry

Pros and Cons of Raising Fall Baby Chicks

Deciding what time of year to order and receive your baby chicks can be a difficult decision and depends heavily on your local climate and the resources you have available at home. This article discusses several factors you should consider when making the decision to raise chicks in the fall.

Poultry

The Fall Molt

Each fall, starting when chickens are about 18 months old, chickens lose their feathers and grow shiny new ones in preparation for winter. Read to find out what to look for and what to expect as the molting season approaches.

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