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Saturday Linkages: Collecting Seaweed, Microfarming and DIY Bike Lanes

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Saturday Linkages
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...inst #Salmonella: https://t.co/G2IgoBuG78 pic.twitter.com/BCATGNFEot — The Poultry Site (@thepoultrysite) November 14, 2016 This is the kind of language I hear from people who are getting on with the work to be done… https://t.co/JYXJZUHD0w — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 19, 2016 Yup. This is what we have to do more of: Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrastructure Permanent https://t.co/JnP88SPAp3 — Root Simple (@rootsimp...

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More Araucana Egg Colors

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Animals, Chickens
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...Still got the flu, so another short post today. We got another beautiful Araucana egg this morning. For those who like to be precise about your Araucana egg colors, we present the chart above, painstakingly crafted by British poultry enthusiast Frank Decmar and available on ebay....

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Your Thoughts on Treadle Feeders?

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Animals, Chickens
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...seases such as virulent forms of salmonella. One of the suggestions at the poultry seminar I attended last week was using treadle feeders. Think of it as a Skinner box for chickens. Chickens walk up to the feeder, step on a treadle, and feed is dispensed. It beats having to wake up at five in the morning to put out food in a conventional feeder. You have to teach your chickens how to use a treadle feeder. One of the veterinarians suggested putting...

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A tip for bored chickens . . .

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Animals, Chickens
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Yet more ideas from the poultry seminar I attended last week. Behavioral specialist Richard Blatchford of UC Cooperative Extension had a great idea for entertaining hens like ours that are confined to a run: give them a bale of straw and don’t even undo the strings. I used to cut the strings and toss them the bale in sections. Keeping it intact keeps them occupied for a much longer time. They’ve been obsessed with the bale for days now and are sl...

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