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Outer Range Brewing Company: Pluck Pluck Pluck Rice Lager

10,000 Birds

Pluck Pluck Pluck should do the trick, a nice, refreshing rice lager brewed by Outer Range Brewing Company of Frisco, Colorado that features the humble chicken. But we do give the tough, barnyard fowl its due on occasion, most notably in these past posts discussing the chicken as a national symbol of France and its appearance on weathervanes.

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HELP! How to care for baby guinney fowl (keets)?

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We have a couple incubators (for a failed attempt at hatching chickens) and were wondering whether we could put them in there to warm up if we watched the temperature (keets need a temp of about 35 Celsius). Most are ok, but some are struggling, and very cold.

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Idlewild Wines: Flora & Fauna Red Wine (2018)

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Without large crowds to feed this year, many households are shopping for the littlest turkeys they can find – a rare commodity, as it turns out, given the unprecedented demand for small gobblers this year – and failing that, opting for another fowl entirely.

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La Vieille Ferme: Rouge (2016)

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And that’s not all: I’m even relaxing my unwritten prohibition against featuring domestic fowl. But is there a bird more emblematic of France than the humble – yet decidedly exotic – farmyard chicken? A literal case of the proverbial chickens coming home to roost, perhaps, but the result was the same. So I survived.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Gaur Morning

10,000 Birds

It is one of the ancestors of domestic fowl. Traveling the rural Maharashtra on previous days, every village had its share of small, slim and long-legged domestic chickens crossing in front of us, not unlike this wild cousin at all. Nowhere in India have I seen broiler horror-chicken like those sold in supermarkets back home.

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Avian influenza H5N2 in the Mississippi and Pacific Flyways

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This mainly affects domestic fowl, and in this sense is not a topic central to 10,000 Birds. Close to 5% of turkeys being farmed in Minnesota have been or shortly will be destroyed , and the virus is also affecting chickens. What is H5N2 Avian Influenza? H5N2 is a bird influenza virus that is making news.

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The Black Album: Black Birders, Blackpoll Warblers, Black-tailed Godwits, Black Flamingos, and more

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Why did the chicken cross the archipelago? Scientists investigate the DNA of Hawaii’s free-roaming fowl. Seattle doesn’t root just for the Seahawks … study reports that Emerald City residents (and those of Berlin, Germany) find common birds like finches and corvids worth opening their wallets for. Now you have.

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