Easy and inexpensive while having a lot of advantages than other birds.Chicken raising is also a fun and amusement and chickens are friendly to human.
Eggs and meat are the basic products obtained from chickens.The chickens raised for the eggs are called Layers while the chickens raised for the meat are called broilers.The importance of chickens can be judged from a survey which says that UK alone consumes 29 million eggs per day.
Broilers:
These are your basic meat birds. The ideal broiler is now expected to gain 4 lb. in 8 weeks and then go into the deep freeze. It used to be that meat birds were either extra roosters or culled hens. Then came a period when caponized cockerels were the popular meat birds. Now extra male chicks of egg-specialist breeds are frequently developed in England.
Layers:
These are the chickens that only raised for the sake of eggs production.These chickens are raised both at the commercial level and also at the domestic level.
An average hen will lay 220 eggs per year. A typical family needs 2 laying hens per family member to supply them with plentiful eggs. So you'll order 25-50 chicks of a breed that lays well and has good food-egg production conversion efficiency.
How to raise chickens in the backyard of your home:
You may raise them in the backyard of your house.First of all you have to buy chicks from the nearer store or you have to hatch chicks from the eggs which may also be done by the help of the incubator.When the little chicks are hatched from the eggs than you have to take a little care of it.Provide a little warmed environment that may be done by the brooder house which consists of a lamp inside it.Somewhere between 10 and 12 weeks after hatching, you can put them out with your other chickens, depending on their size, the weather, and how well insulated or warmed your chicken house is.
Feeding:
Balanced diet is required for the proper raising of chickens. If you allow your chickens to move freely in the greenery of your backyard they will eat a lot there because they also eat grass and a lot more that we cannot even see with the naked eye.But you also provide them required nutrients like pellets etc for their proper raising.Also some of the foods that are found in yards are toxic to chickens.Their names are given below.
Milkweed,Clover,Tulips,Daffodil,Wild Onion, Buttercup,Alfalfa,Lamb's Quarters and Philodendron.
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