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Volume 15, Number 2 Backyard April/May 2020 Poultry America's Favorite Poultry Magazine RARE AND EXOTIC BREEDS FOWL TYPHOID AND PULLORUM DISEASE HANDICAP- ACCESSIBLE COOP INSPIRATION Plus: THE FOUR- LEGGED CHICK April/May 2020 backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com 1 2 Backyard Poultry April/May 2020 backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com 3 contents // 15.2 08 Editor’s Letter 10 Photo Essay: Happy Harvest Farm 14 Coming Events 18 Something to Crow About 22 Ask the Expert Ron Kean and Marissa Ames answer reader questions about their flocks. 28 Flock Photos The best of the best submissions via snail mail and our social sites. 30 All Cooped Up: Fowl Typhoid and Pullorum By Lacey Hughett 34 Halal Chicken By Rita Heikenfeld 36 Dutch Baby Pancakes By Rita Heikenfeld 36 38 Easter Savory Breakfast Bake By Hannah McClure 40 Backyard Chickens Prove Hardy and Resilient By Tamsin Cooper 44 Four Threatened Duck Breeds By Kenny Coogan 48 Holderread’s Lost Bantam Ducks By Craig Bordeleau 50 Exotic Pheasants at Waddesdon Manor By Susie Kearley 54 Pink Pigeons By Susie Kearley 56 Crèvecœurs By Christine Heinrichs 60 The Farm at Prophetstown By Rebecca Sanderson 62 Broken Arrow Farm 50 By Kendra Paulton 4 Backyard Poultry April/May 2020 backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com 5 contents // 15.2 66 Raising Heritage Poultry By Ann Accetta-Scott 68 Brown vs. White Eggs By Kate Johnson 72 Efficiently Hatching Eggs with a Broody Chicken By Amy Fewell 74 The Four-Legged Chick By Rebecca Krebs 76 Chickens and Compost: A Match Made in Heaven By Patrice Lewis 78 Coop Inspiration: Zachariah’s Acres By Steph Merkle 82 Breed Profile: Hamburg Chicken By Tamsin Cooper 84 Secret Life of Poultry: Topper the Comback Duck By Lacey Hughett 74 93 Breeders Directory 95 Classifieds 96 Just for Fun Can You Find the Roo? 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My hatchery orders [email protected] have been known to top 40 chickens: Madagascar not because I NEEDED 40 more Game Steph Merkle, Content Director I pullet chickens but because I saw 20 breeds I [email protected] didn’t own, and I wanted two of each. Editorial Assistants Salmon Faverolles, Cream Brabanter, Samantha Ingersoll, Ann Tom Red-Shouldered Yokohama. I loved my Madagascar Game chicken and my Malay Publication Designer pullet. Of all the rare breeds I’ve owned, Sara Heideman my favorites were my Russian Orloff and ADVERTISING my very sweet and friendly Exchequer Leghorn. Alicia Soper, Advertising Director Of course, the very common sex-links [email protected] always had a place in my flock for the 715-748-1388 sheer number of eggs they produced, and Malay Kelly Weiler pullet I loved cuddling my Blue Cochin and [email protected] Dark Brahma. But still, none of these 715-748-1389 replace Delawares as my favorite chicken breed of all time. love to see your pictures and share them Sue Lapcewich I’ve owned Narragansett and Royal with our other readers in our Something [email protected] 970-373-7301 Palm heritage turkeys and Welsh Harle- to Crow About section. Email high-reso- quin ducks, but so far, no rare or endan- lution copies or snail-mail them, and we Backyard Poultry’s Main Coop gered geese. And someday, I hope to have will happily share them in a future issue. Backyard Poultry beautiful Chinese pheasant breeds. Here’s to beautiful birds! P.O. Box 566, Medford, WI 54451 I hope you enjoy reading this issue Backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com as much as I enjoyed editing it, for the sheer eye candy of the spectacular breeds Subscriptions (U.S. funds): showcased. Have you ever seen what $29.97 for six print issues happens when you cross a pheasant with $29.97 for digital only a peacock? Turn to page 50. Or do you $39.97 for all-access (print + digital) Backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com/ want to help conserve a breed while add- all-membership ing a little splendor into your flock? Try Crèvecœurs. Hamburg chickens are stun- Or mail to: ning, but aren’t the best for free-ranging Backyard Poultry Subscriptions in a small yard because they fly very well. P.O Box 1848, Carson City, NV 89702 970-392-4419 And if you want to keep a breed that your friends have probably never heard of, read Printed in the U.S.A. about Bantam Aztec ducks on page 48. Backyard Poultry (ISSN 1559-2251, USPS 023-374) is published Do you have a favorite rare or exotic bi-monthly by Countryside Publications, at P.O. Box 566, breed of poultry that you keep? We would Medford, WI 54451. Periodicals postage paid at Medford, Marissa Ames WI and additional mailing offices. ©2020 Countryside Publications. Countryside Publications is owned and operated Editor by Fence Post Co. The views presented here do not necessarily represent those of the editor or publisher. All contents of this issue of Backyard Poultry are copyrighted by Countryside Publications, 2020. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited except by permission of the publisher. POSTMASTER: Send all UAA to CFS. (See DMM 707.4.12.5); On The Cover NON-POSTAL AND MILITARY FACILITIES: Send address corrections to Backyard Poultry Subscriptions, Silkie hen, Patsy Cline, with Silkie/Polish chick, P.O. Box 1848, Carson City, NV 89702 Johnny Cash. Photograph by Jessica Crouse. 8 Backyard Poultry April/May 2020 backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com 9 Happy HarvestBy Kelli Lage Farm grew up in a small Iowa farming community. It was common to have Iclassmates that lived on a farm, but the town kids were different. I was a town kid and the concept of farming was foreign to me. I couldn’t imagine waking up earlier than 7:00 in the morning, no less to get up that early and do farm chores. In elementa- ry school, my class would take field trips centered around farm safety. I thought to myself, “When am I ever going to need this?” Then at the age of 19 I met, fell in love with, and married, yeah you guessed it — a farmer. My husband Ryan has been passion- ate about farming for as long as he can remember. He grew up on the family farm, often helping his dad complete farm chores. When I met Ryan, I admired the hard work he did as a farmer, but it never crossed my mind as something I could do as well. However, as our marriage began, I watched him work and I was drawn in. Over time he’s shown me the beauty of planting something and watching it grow. Without him, I would have never discov- ered my passion for agriculture. When Ryan saw my interest, he joyfully began to teach me. Since we both found so much delight in farming, it became a shared goal to start a farm of our own someday. At Ryan’s family farm we have beef cattle and grow corn and soybeans, but beginning our own journey always After I thrifted this miniature bench, the idea came to have our spring chicks model it. If you stayed in the back of our minds. know chickens, then you know I have about 100 outtakes for this photo. After a couple of years of marriage, we moved to the country. The previous owners decided to include their chickens along Follow Kelli Lage: with the acreage, thus Happy Harvest Farm was born. Our dog Cedar can often facebook.com/HappyHarvestFarm be seen running around the acreage with instagram.com/HappyHarvestFarm a skip in her step. She likes to feel just as included as us, so she has dubbed her- self the professional digger for planting.