Learn How To Raise Your Own Chickens
Keeping Poultry For Eggs Production : poultry house
There are different varieties of poultry eggs. The most common reared are chicken, ducks, quails, gooses and ostriches. Eggs produced by the above mentioned birds vary in size, taste and color. They are commonly used for food especially because of their high protein value. This article explains how one can rear chicken. Chicken eggs are the most popular and readily available in the market. Rearing hens for eggs is also easy and cheap.
Chicken maturity period is approximately five months. It takes twenty to twenty two weeks for a chicken to start rearing from the day of hatching. One can… Continue reading
Wyandotte Chickens and Fresh Eggs
Wyandotte chickens are great birds for someone looking to raise chickens for the first time. They are attractive birds with great personalities and egg-producing capabilities.
Full-grown, the males will weigh in at approximately nine pounds. The females will grow to about seven pounds. The bantam varieties, however, are much smaller, at about forty percent of the size of the larger birds.
This soft-feathered breed is available in a wide variety of colors. White, blue, black, and buff are just a couple of examples. There are even gold and silver-laced varieties. Although many people consider the laced varieties to be the… Continue reading
Chicken Coop Nesting Boxes – The Most Trustworthy Position Exclusively For Hens In Which To Lay Eggs
Many people than any other time are thinking about new ways to lessen their own shopping bills and also come to be even more autonomous such as obtaining their very own backyards not to mention taking care of their own unique family of predominantly birds when it comes to the two meat and also chicken eggs.
Nevertheless for those who decide on to take care of your very own new chickens and would like to acquire a good produce of eggs frequently it is advisable to ensure that you create the proper form coop or possibly chicken residences; and therefore… Continue reading
Candling Chicken Eggs – Candling Duck Eggs : chickens eggs
What is Egg Candling?
Egg Candling is the process of using an illumination source to determine whether or not the eggs you have are fertile. For this, all you really need is a flashlight and a dark room, although if you want to get really precise and well-lit, you should buy an egg candler. For candling duck eggs, candling chicken eggs, and candling quail eggs, the procedure is pretty simple:
What to Do- How to Candle Chicken Eggs
For chicken egg candling and duck egg candling, just hold the beam of the flashlight behind the egg while you are in… Continue reading
Why Have My Egg Laying Hens Stopped Laying Eggs?
Do you have backyard hens and are wondering “why have my egg laying hens stopped laying eggs? You are not alone! But don’t panic because egg laying can stop or slow down for a number of reasons. “Normal egg production” can vary for a lot of different reasosn.
If you decide to keep egg laying hens, you will soon find out how much fun they are to keep around and how wonderful their fresh eggs taste. Anyone that has ever kept egg laying hens before knows that the number of eggs they lay… Continue reading
Useful Tips to Raise Chickens to Lay More Eggs : laying chickens
Many people asked the way to raise their chickens to lay more eggs. And my answer is “build a chicken coop”! Hen houses are no longer a secret they are proven to produce far more eggs, as much as 300 percent more!
The reason why chicken lay 3 times more eggs while they are living in a coop is because of the extreme comfort, security and love that the coop offers for them (chickens). Let me explain this better:
#1 Comfort: you see a chicken house provides a lot of comfort; it gives chicken shelter upon rash weathers such as… Continue reading
Advice on hatching chicken eggs
There are lots of things you need to be aware of when hatching chicken eggs for the first time, the most important thing is to make sure you source your eggs from a reliable breeder and obtain the freshest eggs you can. Most reputable breeders will send you eggs which are younger than 10 days old and this makes a huge difference to your hatch rate. If your eggs are not fresh and are over 10 days old, the chances of them hatching are limited. Always also make sure that you leave your eggs to stand for 24 hours… Continue reading