- Choosing the Right Chicken Breed: A Guide for Beginners
Choosing the right chicken breed is a decision that will have a big impact on your flock’s success By considering your primary purpose (eggs, meat, or both), your local climate, the amount of space available, and the chickens' temperament, you can make a well-informed choice that will set you up for a productive and enjoyable chicken-raising
- Raising Chickens 101 - Chicks, Breeds, Coops, Tips
Tips Tricks for raising chickens, building chicken coops, choosing chicken breeds + ask questions in our community forum Featured Content Are You a Practical Chicken Keeper or a Total Chicken Spoiler? 🧁 2025-06-25 00:00:00 | 2025-07-02 00:00:00
- Forum list | BackYard Chickens - Learn How to Raise Chickens
Tips for raising chickens, building chicken coops choosing breeds Get help from thousands of community experts
- What Is The Life Expectancy of Chickens?
Chicken life expectancy, health, and other genetic traits received very little attention Chickens were simply chickens In the 19th century, people started gathering chickens and experimenting with their genes to see if they could better meet human needs and expectations
- 24 Cool Chicken Runs – Plans, Pictures, Designs
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- Coccidiosis How To Treat It - BackYard Chickens
Coccidia are a microscopic parasitic organism that infect poultry when ingested by the chicken The parasites found in the ground or bird feces attaches itself to the lining in the gut, multiplies and becomes an oocyst feeding in the digestive tract which will make it bleed
- Development of a Chicken Embryo Day by Day - BackYard Chickens
This is an explanation of what is happening each day as a chicken embryo develops, complete with candling pictures The egg I am using is a silver spangled spitzhauben Definitions you may need: Vitteline membrane: The membrane that surrounds the yolk and separates it from the white Allantois: The allantois is the chick's connection to the chorion
- The Best Chicken Feed | BackYard Chickens - Learn How to Raise Chickens
Chicken layer feed should be fed to hens that produce eggs after they have laid their first egg This particular type of chicken feed contains higher levels of calcium, which makes for better and stronger eggs It is possible to feed laying hens a general flock feed and they will still produce usable eggs
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