Breeds, housing, feed, breeding and health signs for backyard chickens and other poultry, goats, sheep, a little cattle, pigs, rabbits and honey bees. For homesteaders keeping animals on a small scale.
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Hatching eggs in an incubator, raising chicks in a brooder, and keeping ducks, geese, turkeys, quail and guinea fowl. For keepers adding new birds to the flock.
43 total questions
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Candling
Card #2
Lockdown
Card #3
Pip
1. You set chicken eggs in the incubator on 1 May. About when should they hatch?
2. You set Pekin duck eggs and chicken eggs on the same day. Roughly when do the ducklings hatch compared with the chicks?
3. Your chicks are crowded together under the heat lamp and peeping loudly. What does it tell you?
1. A baby turkey is called a ___.
Hint: rhymes with 'colt'
2. A young goose is called a ___.
Hint: starts with g
3. A chick breaks out of its shell using the ___, a small sharp point on the tip of its beak that falls off soon after hatching.
Hint: two words
