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Whether you can keep chickens where you live, how many to start with and what it costs.

Raising Chickens for Beginners

Raising Chickens for Beginners: A Complete Starting Guide

Every experienced keeper started exactly where you are now: staring at a feed store chick bin, or a hatchery website, …

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How Many Chickens Do I Need for My Backyard Flock?

How Many Chickens Do I Need for My Backyard Flock?

The question sounds simple: how many chickens do I need? In practice it is really three questions folded into one. …

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Can You Have Chickens in Your Backyard? How to Check the Rules

Can You Have Chickens in Your Backyard? How to Check the Rules

Two houses on the same street, in two different cities, can have completely different answers to whether chickens are allowed …

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