This year’s Marin County Fair was way better than fair when scored on the attendance and finance scale. Fair chief Jim Farley, the county’s director of cultural and visitor services, said 4.3 percent more people visited the bash at the Marin County Fairgrounds last week when compared with last year. the grand total: 122,000 attendees, [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — More chickens may be finding homes in Cedar Rapids backyards this spring. On Saturday afternoon, more than 40 people gathered at the Indian Creek Nature Center, 6665 Otis Rd. SE, to attend a workshop about how to raise chickens under a 19-month-old city ordinance. Attendees were eligible to receive certificates at the [...]
On the first day five key note speakers informed the attendees of the latest developments in poultry nutrition. Robert Renema of the Poultry Research Centre of the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada discussed “Breeder nutrition and early growth traits of broiler chicks”. The impact of maternal nutrition on broiler offspring quality, growth, immunity, [...]
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