Common Organic Treatment for Newcastle Disease
The drugs to treat or cure Newcastle disease (ND) are not yet available. Hence, the only solution available to poultry keepers is to prevent its occurrence through the vaccination of …
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Green Chicken Poop: Causes & Best Ways to Treat
At the sight of green chicken poop, every chicken farmer must be worried. Well, you shouldn’t get worried in some cases. Diarrhea in chickens and other poultry birds is nothing …
Ameraucana Chicken Breed Information & Guide
The Ameraucana chicken is a newly recognized breed that lays blue eggs. (To find out where the blue eggs come from, click here). However, it should be noted though that …
Simple Layer Chicken Feed Calculator
Feed and feeding are vital in livestock farming. Generally, the cost of feeding is over 70% of the total cost of production. So if you’re thinking of raising and keeping …
Floor Space Requirements for Broilers & Layers + Calculator
In livestock farming, floor space is very important. For instance, floor spacing is one of the factors or things that affect growth performance as well as the general welfare of …
A Beginner’s Guide to Buying Point of Lay Chickens
Have you recently seen the Point of Lay Chicken For Sale adverts? Do you want to replace your stock with point of lay chickens? Are you new to this whole …
Egg Production Cycle & How Chickens Lay Eggs
Chicken Egg Production Cycle A laying hen will produce eggs for several years, but it is only economical to keep the layers for 18 months. Egg production commences at about 22 weeks of …
How to Raise Backyard Chickens Successfully
What are Backyard Chickens? Backyard chickens are the chickens that are raised or kept at the backyard of homes. They can either be raised inside cages, coops or free-range. They …
Herbs for Healthy Chickens
We did not just start to use herbs for raising healthy chickens, organic poultry has been in existence for decades. But thanks to the recent documentation by organic poultry practitioners.
Beginner’s Guide to Raising Broilers from Start to Finish
Broiler chickens, also known as meat chickens, are a type of poultry that are raised for their meat. They are often reared commercially in large numbers.
