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Grocery Shopping for Your Health: The refrigerated case – eggs

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October 22, 2021

In the last post in our "Grocery Shopping for Your Health" series, we dipped into cheese. This blog post keeps us in the refrigerated section a bit longer, to talk about eggs. Eggs are economical, convenient and easy to prepare. You can serve ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Money Matters, Work & Life
Tags: Egg, Eggs, FIN, Food, Groceries, Grocery, GroceryShoppingForYourHealth, Health, Money, Nutrition, Pgm_FCS, Refrigerated, Save, Saving, Shop, Shopping

10 Tips for Healthy Backyard Chickens

by Jessica M. Ryals
July 28, 2021

Have backyard chickens or thinking about raising some? Biosecurity is also known as "Health & Sanitation" and in the video below I outline 10 things you can do keep a healthy flock. The main goals of biosecurity are to help ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes, Work & Life
Tags: Agriculture, Backyard Chickens, Biosecurity, Chickens, Collier County, Collier County Extension, Eggs, Health, Jessica Ryals

Backyard Chickens Remain Popular in 2020

by Samantha Murray
November 3, 2020

Small chicken flocks, a staple of turn-of-the-century American yards, have come back into vogue over the past several years. Backyard chickens supply their owners with ready access to farm fresh eggs and small flock husbandry can be a rewarding ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Livestock
Tags: Backyard Chickens, Chickens, Eggs, Small Farms

Food Safety for Backyard Eggs

by Halie Corbitt
June 23, 2020

As we are all trying to figure out how to make it through this pandemic, many of us have decided to start trying to be self sufficient. As prices rise and resources seem to be unpredictable, why not start providing for yourself?Back yard chickens ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Backyard, Chickens, Egg, Eggs, Food Safety

My Embryology Experience thru a 4-H Restructured Event

by Yvonne Florian
April 23, 2020

By Yvonne Florian and Christine Kelly-Begazo Our 4-H embryo development display came to live at my house. It was meant as a 4-H demonstration for the Indian River County Firefighters' Fair which would run from March 13th through the 22nd. ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: 4-H, Ag Literacy, Agriculture, Bobcats, Cancellations, Chicken Flock, Chicken Needs, Chicken-culture, Chickens, Chicks, Eggs, Embryology, Fair, Incubation, Predators, Quarantine, Raccoons, Raising Chickens

Eggcelent Hard Boiled Eggs

by Paul Schumaker
April 7, 2020

By Kristie Popa With Easter coming up in just a few days, many families will be hard boiling eggs to color and/or eat. Perfecting your egg boiling skills will lead to the perfect hard-boiled eggs! This is an easy activity that 4-H youth can ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Curriculum, Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Home Management, Relationships & Family
Tags: Eggs, Hard Boiled

Mothers see healthier children in the “One Egg Per Day” project in Burkina Faso

by Livestock Lab
February 24, 2020

“Bicycle chicken” is a national dish in Burkina Faso, and even Bill Gates shared a video about it and blogged that chicken rearing can reduce extreme poverty. But what about the eggs? Recent research in Burkina Faso, sponsored ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Health & Nutrition, Livestock
Tags: Burkina Faso, Children, Eggs, Intervention, Mothers, Nutrition, Resilience

Backyard Chickens 101

by Mary Beth Henry
October 2, 2018

Backyard Chickens 101 Thinking about backyard chickens? Join us to learn more! The UF/IFAS Extension Polk County Small Farms program will offer a small flock egg production and management class for beginners on Saturday, November 3, 2018 ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Livestock
Tags: Chickens, Eggs, Mbhenry, Polksmallfarms

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