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Bawk Tawk
Incubation & Hatching Suzanne Chandler Incubation & Hatching Suzanne Chandler

Bawk Tawk

Dalia Monterroso, author of Let’s All Keep Chickens, and President of Chickenlandia, honored us with an invitation to be a Bawk Tawk guest. And, as you know, I love to chat about chickens, so off we went.

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Chick Mortality
Incubation & Hatching Suzanne Chandler Incubation & Hatching Suzanne Chandler

Chick Mortality

We don’t like to talk about it. We don’t like to think about it. And we certainly don’t want to discover it in our brooder in the morning. But chicks die. Some perfectly cute floofy little chicks just don’t make it, which is why hens reproduce themselves almost every day.

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