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Choosing the Right Chicken Breed: A Guide for Beginners Choosing the right chicken breed is a decision that will have a big impact on your flock’s success By considering your primary purpose (eggs, meat, or both), your local climate, the amount of space available, and the chickens' temperament, you can make a well-informed choice that will set you up for a productive and enjoyable chicken-raising
How To Raise Chickens When buying or building a coop, make sure it's big enough for them (and any future additions) A good rule of thumb for space requirements is approximately 3–4 square feet per chicken inside the coop and 10 sq ft per chicken for the outside run Check out this great guide on how much room do chickens need? Chicken Coop:
A Backyard Chicken Enthusiasts Formulary (Avian Drugs and Dosages) Treating pain or other symptoms is far different than treating a specific disease, keep this in mind if trying to treat ‘respiratory disease’ or diarrhea, because treating a chicken for coccidia when it is suffering from salmonella isn’t going to be beneficial, an actual diagnosis will make treatment far more successful rather than a
What Is The Life Expectancy of Chickens? Chicken life expectancy, health, and other genetic traits received very little attention Chickens were simply chickens In the 19th century, people started gathering chickens and experimenting with their genes to see if they could better meet human needs and expectations
Chickens are cool! (50 chicken facts you will love) 10 Each chicken sound means something specific 11 A chicken can live for a short while without a head! 12 A hen can lay more than 300 eggs a year 13 A mother hen turns her eggs about 50 times a day 14 The largest chicken egg weighed nearly 12 ounces 15 The chicken breed called turkens is not a chicken and turkey cross That is a myth 16
Development of a Chicken Embryo Day by Day - BackYard Chickens This is an explanation of what is happening each day as a chicken embryo develops, complete with candling pictures The egg I am using is a silver spangled spitzhauben Definitions you may need: Vitteline membrane: The membrane that surrounds the yolk and separates it from the white Allantois: The allantois is the chick's connection to the chorion
The Best Chicken Feed | BackYard Chickens - Learn How to Raise Chickens Chicken layer feed should be fed to hens that produce eggs after they have laid their first egg This particular type of chicken feed contains higher levels of calcium, which makes for better and stronger eggs It is possible to feed laying hens a general flock feed and they will still produce usable eggs
Coccidiosis How To Treat It - BackYard Chickens Coccidia are a microscopic parasitic organism that infect poultry when ingested by the chicken The parasites found in the ground or bird feces attaches itself to the lining in the gut, multiplies and becomes an oocyst feeding in the digestive tract which will make it bleed