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    A Healthy Flock: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

    Aug 16, 2019 3 minutes
    By Madelaine Fletcher

    romurban hens in Wisconsin to 4-H chicken projects in Florida, the backyard poultry revolution is sweeping the nation. Whether you raise chickens for meat or eggs, breed show birds or game birds, have a big flock or a couple of hens, health is an important priority. Practicing the fundamentals of offering your birds sufficient space, clean quarters, healthy, uncontaminated feed, and clean water will go a long way to keeping chicken

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