My wife and I live on a small farm. We raise chickens organically and sell their eggs. We also have six cats, so we go through a lot of cat litter — we usually buy the 35 pound buckets. Needless to ...

Producing clean table eggs from a flock raised in a deep litter system has always been a big challenge to most poultry farmers. It even becomes a tall order during the rainy season when the litter ...

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The nesting material in our chicken nesting boxes was getting raked out leading to dirty and cracked eggs, so this is how I fixed the problem. Also in this video, I show my latest experiment of trying ...

A striking white peacock named Augustus greets visitors at the Greensboro farm where 14-year-old Axel McKenzie lives with his parents and two younger sisters. The bird isn’t a typical farmyard animal, ...

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DEAR JOAN: I have five laying hens and receive four to five organic eggs per day from my Buckeye chickens. Yesterday, I was surprised with four normal chicken eggs and one very small brown egg. Today, ...