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Health Issues with Chickens

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 How to Treat Chickens for Pasty Butt a Foot Infection and Mites How to treat chickens      As with all animals, chickens can have health problems. Our chickens have had both normal, and bizarre health problems. Our first problem was pasty butt, which I talked about in another blog post, but, why not talk about it again? Our second problem was a weird foot infection. Then our chicken’s latest health issue was feather mites.      Pasty butt is actually dried feces that is blocking the chicken’s vent. This normally happens with chicks, but it can happen to adult chickens, too. This problem has the easiest, most instantaneous cure, the cure is a simple wet rag. Take the wet rag and dab at and gently rub the chick’s vent where the dried feces is, this will soften the dried feces and eventually remove it. When one of our chicks got it, we caught it, either the day after it happened or the same day, because she wasn’t in any sort of discomfort. It ...
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The Chicken Journy Pt. 2- The Research

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                         Researching Chickens How to Raise Chickens        This Blog post is going to be just my research on chickens from three years ago.      You h a ve decide d to raise chickens and maybe have read about raising them, and are thinking about getting them. W ell now you have a source to answer all your questions such as how to avoid death in your flock, purchasing them, caring for them, coop requirements, and some breeds of chickens.      W ay s to avoid your chickens’ downfall is the most important knowledge to keep chickens . C over ing the broad subject of keeping predators from the air and ground away from the chickens co u ld go on for a long time, but the basics are simple: CCC ( combat, confront, counter ) . Combat – call your game commission and ask what they can do. Confront – when you see the predator near ...
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The Chicken Journy Pt. 1- The Journy Begins

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            Raising Chickens - the Beginning of Our                                                 Journey The Story:      Starting around 2017 my sister and I helped with the daily chores at the Yetsko farm two blocks from our house. The farm was established in 1855, and has been designated a century farm by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. We still help out with baling hay and any other tasks they need help with. The Yetskos are also the ones who started our chicken journey.      One day in early 2021, we were feeding their flock of twenty some chickens, and honestly, I don’t know why or how we got talking about how easy it is to raise chickens. At some point they told us we could get chickens and it would be easy to raise them.      ...
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Bluberry Muffins

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                How to Make Blueberry Muffins  Making Blueberry Muffins from Scratch      Bake sweets and carry a big whisk , that's what I did yesterday because I was bored. When most people have nothing to do they turn to the TV, and eat snacks. Instead of turning on the TV and eating snacks, I turned off the TV and made the snacks.      Light and fluffy, with a crumbly topping, blueberry muffins are perfect for an early breakfast, a midday snack, or even something to munch on during a long road trip. Blueberry muffins require the perfect timing, and if you do it right, they take no longer than 25 to 30 minutes to make, plus twenty minutes in the oven. Along with simple ingredients, it is one of the best snacks I know of.      First things first, put liners in the muffin tray and heat your oven to temperature. Then you have to create the topping in a bowl, so that the m...
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Tomato tips and tricks

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                          How to Grow Tomato's Tomato Growing Tips      What’s red, round, and perfect when sliced with a sprinkle of salt on it? None other than the Tomato, almost everyone loves tomatoes, whether they're fresh, or in ketchup form. One thing everyone with a garden agrees on is that tomatoes bought at the store, well, they just don't taste like a tomato. If you are new to growing tomatoes, or even if your an experienced gardener, continue reading, because there is lots to learn about the history of the tomato, their health benefits, and some tips and tricks to growing them.                                                   Where did the tomato originate from? Believe it or not, the tomato is native to the Ande mountain r...
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Introduction

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                                        About Me      Welcome to The Redneck Runner, I’m Simon Girard, I live in the once great coal mining town of Portage, Pennsylvania. Home schooled and having just turned 14, I am a young ninth grader with a passion for learning. And by learning, I mean researching anything and everything, from farming and homesteading, to how to build my own business and model rockets, to how to get a ham radio license and a private pilots license. Besides learning, I also run cross country and track and field, and volunteer at our local food pantry.      I have built this blog for a couple of reasons. One, so I can learn good life skills through this journey. Two, because I can, by that I mean that, I have a right as an American that people in other countries don't have. The first amendment states that “Cong...
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