Poultry feed is food for farm poultry, including chickens, ducks, geese and other domestic birds. Before the twentieth century, poultry were mostly kept on general farms, and foraged for much of their feed, eating insects, grain spilled by cattle and horses, and plants around the farm. This was...
The Most Promising Option (MoPO) for the Thuthukani broiler project is broiler production and will entail production, processing and marketing broilers that have been dressed, graded according to weight ( 1.2kg – 2kg), packaged, labeled and sold in large quantities (20kg+) as chicken cuts or...
Approximately 40 breeds of chicken discussed in this chart including: Ameraucana Ancona Andalusian Appenzeller Araucana Aseel Australorp or Black Australorp
The period from hatching until the chickens no longer require supplementary heat is called the ‘brooding period’ and usually lasts for 3–6 weeks, depending on seasonal temperatures and the type of housing. Chickens need supplementary heat when they hatch, because they are unable to maintain their...
Chickens have very basic needs: food and water, adequate shelter and space, and predator protection. Chicken owners go to all different lengths to meet those needs, from the simplest to the very elaborate. The beauty of raising chickens is that there is no set formula and no way that you must do...
2020-05-27 This is the first in a series of four books on the care of chickens. It introduces the subject and deals with thebuilding of a hen house and what sort of food to provide. This has been adapted fromAtallpakunata Wiñachina / La Cría De Gallinas- a shell template by SIL Peru, first published in...
2020-05-27 This is the second in a series of four books on the care of chickens. It contains advice on the daily care of poultry, food and water and how to choose good hens. This has been adapted fromAtallpakunata Wiñachina / La Cría De Gallinas- a shell template by SIL Peru, first published in 1993. The...
2020-05-27 This is the third in a series of four books on the care of chickens. It contains advice on how to select the right hens for reproduction, the right eggs for incubation and the care of newly hatched chicks. This has been adapted fromAtallpakunata Wiñachina / La Cría De Gallinas- a shell template...