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Rules & reference

Reference pages for backyard keepers: local rules, poultry terms and a piece of poultry history. Each page lists the sources it draws on.

• Chicken Keeping Rules by CityA step-by-step way to check zoning, animal codes, state law and HOA covenants before you buy birds, with five real city codes compared side by side.
• Backyard Poultry GlossaryPullet, cockerel, POL, bloom, vent, molt, broody, straight run: 55 chicken terms defined from extension and USDA sources, plus a labelled hen diagram.
• The 1948 "Chicken of Tomorrow" Contest and How It Shaped the Broiler IndustryThe A&P/USDA breeding contest of 1946–48, its winners, the 1948 film, and why most broilers today trace back to it.

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