Introduction
Keeping Chickens The Benefits Keeping chickens is rewarding in so many ways. With healthy, well feed chickens come the supply of fresh delicious egg...
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Housing
A chook house should provide chickens with a place to sleep and a place to lay eggs. It should offer protection from the elements, predators and vermin.
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Feeding
Feeding your chickens quality feed is the way to achieve healthy, happy, productive hens. What you put in is what you get out!
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Health
Feeding your chickens quality feed is the way to achieve healthy, happy, productive hens. What you put in is what you get out!
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Pecking Order
It is very important when keeping poultry to be aware of how the pecking order works within a flock. Best to purchase all from the same breeder....
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Broodiness
It is perfectly natural for heritage hens to go broody. It is in their genes! The heavy breeds are more inclined to do so than the light breeds.
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Hatching Eggs
Buying in hatching eggs (fertile eggs) is the most economical way of starting or adding to your existing flock.
Raising Chicks
Chicks can either be hatched from eggs in an incubator or under a broody hen or purchased as day olds from a breeder.
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Meat Birds
We have been growing on our heavy breed cockerels for some time now and processing them for the table. They make an excellent table bird.
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