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	<title>CompostaBlog &#187; Animal Agriculture</title>
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		<title>How do I prevent mice entering my chicken coop?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 17:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backyard Chickens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Kerry Mundt I love backyard chickens but I&#8217;m definitely not a fan of mice and rats. Just because you have chickens in your backyard, doesn&#8217;t mean you also have to have mice or rats in your chicken coop. In most cases, it&#8217;s the spilt grain that attracts mice into the chicken coop. Once inside, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Chicks Off the Lights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backyard Chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baby chickens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, the baby chicks are &#8216;weaned&#8217; from the heating lamp! Yeah!! They are full of feathers, their necks have filled in from their &#8216;ugly duckling&#8217; look, LOL. They are looking quite beautiful! It is going to rain this weekend. Now I can only hope they have the good sense to use their little ramp and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hatching Your Own Chickens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backyard Chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breeding chickens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hatching your own eggs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to breed chickens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To follow up on my previous article on keeping chickens in your backyard it’s probably likely that some of you will want to go one step further and hatch and raise your own chicks from your existing stock. Breeding chickens couldn’t be easier and it’s a worthwhile and rewarding project to get your kids involved in too.]]></description>
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		<title>Secrets for Building Attractive Poultry Housing Cheap and Easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backyard Chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hen house]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poultry farming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are thinking building your own chicken coop to save money, this article was written especially for you. Discover little-known tricks to building attractive and high quality chicken coops that will save you money. Learn techniques that will allow you to build your hen houses right the first time while avoiding common mistakes. Find answers to questions about building poultry housing that you did not even know you had.]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Chicken farming- Free Range Eggs, For Free!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backyard Chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backyard eggs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building a chicken coop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chicken eggs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chickenark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free range eggs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keeping chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban farming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Keeping your own stock of free range egg laying hens is an enjoyable and rewarding pastime as more and more city folk are discovering with the increasing popularity of 'urban farming'. Hens can be kept in even the smallest of spaces as long as they have suitable shelter, a ready supply of food and small patch of ground to scratch around in.]]></description>
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		<title>The Hidden Link Between Factory Farms and Human Illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BTW, Read the really frightening article in this month&#8217;s Mother Earth News, The Hidden Link Between Factory Farms and Human Illness We all KNOW this. We all sense this. It is time we did more. Stop EATING this. There are many alternatives, many reviewed in the above article. Eat less meat, buy from reputable growers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicken Laws and Backyard Chickens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backyard Chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jodi's Urban Homestead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial raised animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slow food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By now, you all know that we are raising our own chickens in the backyard. The idea is to gain more self sufficiency and "buy local".  It is important to know where your food comes from. Some are unfamiliar with the concepts, but for those of you who do and think you are living in solitude, think again. There are many beginning to understand the changes that are going to have to take place for this world to go solidly forward...]]></description>
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		<title>The Animal Farm Accountability Question</title>
		<link>http://www.compostablog.com/animal-farm-meets-big-brother/</link>
		<comments>http://www.compostablog.com/animal-farm-meets-big-brother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Community]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t belong to the &#8216;grist mill&#8217; perhaps you should at least read this article&#8230; Old Big Brother Had a Farm I liked Mary Zanoni, executive director of Farm for Life&#8217;s bottom line&#8230; &#8220;Zanoni sums up the views of many independent farmers: &#8220;Real food security comes from raising food yourself or buying from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The High Cost of Animal Agriculture</title>
		<link>http://www.compostablog.com/the-high-cost-of-animal-agriculture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Agriculture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Susan Weiner at Farm Sanctuary for pointing us to that organization&#8217;s network of websites &#8212; this has to be one of the most comprehensive resources available on factory farming, animal rights, vegetarianism, and many other related topics. Some of the more interesting resources found were the information from FactoryFarming.com on the environmental and [...]]]></description>
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