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Ingredients: 1 or so lb. cooked and shredded chicken (boiled is easiest) 1 can diced green chilies 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 or so cup shredded cheese, as desired black olives, as desired 5-10 tortillas - corn or flour, as desired (# used depends on tortilla size) 1/2 or so cup red taco...

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Whether you have a small city loft, a suburban backyard, or a rural farm, this friendly guide gives you easy-to-follow and customizable plans for building a backyard chicken coop. You'll get basic construction know-how and key information to design and build a coop that's easy on the eyes and...

Practical how-to advice for raising chickens in virtually any backyard! Are you ready to join the hundreds of thousands of peeps that are raising backyard chickens? Maybe you already own a flock of egg machines and want to know how to properly care for them. Raising Chickens For Dummies...

There are many reasons to raise chickens in your backyard, but here are a few of the most frequently expressed reasons people raise chickens: Chickens are easy, inexpensive pets when compared to most other pets. 1 Bag of Layer feed lasts a month for many backyard flocks They mature much...

Gold Wyandotte Hatching Remember this guy from day 8 on the candling page? Well, here's how it all turned out on day 23. Pipped a nice section Another angle Now it starts to really push It gets a wing out And finally the head unfolds - whew Rock 'n roll around the incubator...

This section provides information about diseases specific to poultry. BYC makes no guarantee as to the validity or effectiveness of any information presented here. DISEASES Avian Pox Bumblefoot Surgery Bumblefoot in your Flock Impacted Crop Marek's Disease...

Ingredients: 6 cups apples 2 tbs flour 1 cup sugar 2 tsp cinnamon 1/8 tsp salt 6 Tbs flour 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup quick oats 6 tbs butter softened Cooking Instructions Combine Apples 2 tbs flour sugar cinnamon salt in a bowl. Put apple mixture in a greased baking pan 8x8. Mix 6 tbs flour...

Our Coop Story We are Billy and Bridget, and we have 8 chickens in the making – 2 silver laced wyandottes, 2 light brahmas, 2 red star sex-link, 1 black star sex-link, and one buff cochin. Here is our henhouse. Bridget, let me do most of the planning. This was my first attempt at building a...

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The Montana Egg Cabin - MTchick Our coop is now completed. This post has all the photos, in order of most recent to least recent, that I think are worth sharing... that means it has a lot of photos! Brief synopsis; 7 standard hens, 4'x4' floor plan henhouse (which is a bit small but probably...

Here at Backyard chickens we're not just about work. We all enjoy a good joke. Why did the Chicken cross the road: To prove to the deer that it could be done It wanted to show it was not a chicken. Because the referee shouted fowl. Egg Jokes: It's the evil chicken that lays...

Ingredients: 1 stick margar 2 c. sugar 1/2 c. milk 2 c. quick oats 1/2 c. peanut butter 1 tsp. vanilla 5 tbsp cocoa Cooking Instructions Measure margarine, sugar, milk and cocoa in sauce pan. Bring to boil while stirring and boil 1 minute. Add oats, peanut butter and vanilla. Mix well. Cool...

Size:Standard and Bantam Colors:Various (8)Eggs:Bluish, Greenish, or BrownTemperament:Unavailable First, a note about Ameraucanas vs. Araucanas. Both breeds lay eggs with shells colored various shades of blue, have pea combs, and should have red earlobes. Beyond that few similarities exist in...

Size:Standard and Bantam Colors:Various (8)Eggs:Bluish, Greenish, or BrownTemperament:Unavailable First, a note about Ameraucanas vs. Araucanas. Both breeds lay eggs with shells colored various shades of blue, have pea combs, and should have red earlobes. Beyond that few similarities exist in...

Size:Standard Colors:BlackEggs:BrownTemperament:Tame to shy Illustration from American Australorp Breeders website The Australorp was developed in Australia from Orpington stock. It is noted for its egg production - While many sources say they are smaller or trimmer than Orpingtons, ours are...

Size:Bantam Click for a slideshow Colors:VariousEggs:?Temperament:Tame Belgian Bearded d'Anvers (or Barbu d'Anvers) are true bantams with the standard weight of cocks being 26 oz. and the standard weight of hens being 22 oz. They are very energetic and are usually friendly, although the males...

Size:Bantam Colors:VariousEggs:?Temperament:Tame & Docile Frizzles are one of the most popular and desirable bantam chickens. Their "backwards" feathers are give them a striking appearance - they look like they backed up into a hair dryer! Docile and sweet, they make good pets, too...

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Size:Bantam Click for a slideshow Colors:ChestnutEggs:Tinted WhiteTemperament:Very Tame Nankins, sometimes called Nankeens or Nanking are Asian, are believed to have originated in the Nanking region of China. Similarities in their color to a light cloth made in Nanking are given credit for...