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    THE BEST BACKYARD CHICKEN BREEDS FOR KIDS

    Feb 07, 2020 3 minutes
    By Melissa Caughey

    Melissa Caughey, award-winning blogger and owner of Tilly’s Nest, makes it easy for kids to master the basics of chicken raising in her new book, A Kid’s Guide to Keeping Chickens (Storey Publishing, 2015). The following excerpt is from Chapter 2, “Choosing the Best Chickens.”

    Here are the 10 chicken breeds that we have found work well for families and tend to be the most docile, friendliest birds. By no means does this list include all the possible breeds. There are hundreds of different ones out there! You can

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