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Candling Chicken Eggs – Candling Duck Eggs : chickens eggs
What is Egg Candling?
Egg Candling is the process of using an illumination source to determine whether or not the eggs you have are fertile. For this, all you really need is a flashlight and a dark room, although if you want to get really precise and well-lit, you should buy an egg candler. For candling duck eggs, candling chicken eggs, and candling quail eggs, the procedure is pretty simple:
What to Do- How to Candle Chicken Eggs
For chicken egg candling and duck egg candling, just hold the beam of the flashlight behind the egg while you are in… Continue reading
A Plan For Building Chicken Coops : plans for chicken coop
At first, building chicken coops seems like a very daunting task. It doesn’t have to be that way if you start with a plan. I know we have all heard of breaking a big task down into bite sized chunks.
Well, let’s do that!
The first step is to figure out how big you need your chicken coop to be. Will you just raise a couple of chickens for the eggs or are you going to want to grow your brood over time? When building chicken coops this is an important factor. If you just want to raise a few… Continue reading
My Chicken Coop Plan – Basic Chicken Coop Provisions
In today’s article, we are going to take a look at the key chicken coop provisions required. When you first develop your chicken coop plan, providing for proper housing and related features is absolutely necessary to keep your chickens in excellent physical shape, contented and happy. You will do best in your efforts if your chickens are as “contented as a cow,” so to speak.
As I stated once before, you will do best if you consider your chickens to be pets instead of just livestock. Most people tend to take better care of their animals when they have the… Continue reading
Chicken House Plan – Chickens in My Backyard?
While looking for a workable chicken house plan, there are a few other factors that you will need to consider.
In My Backyard
Although you may want to raise chickens for many reasons, you will need to check out how realistic the idea really is. First and foremost you need to make sure that your town even allows for raising chickens. Not all towns do! You will need to check out your local ordinances and regulations regarding raising chickens.. You may have to get special permits to meet health and/or zoning regulations. You do not want one of the local… Continue reading
Chicken Factory Farming In Texas – Learn The Facts
Waco, TX – Factory farming is a highly debated topic in the United States and around the world. The myths many animal rights groups would like the world to believe are exaggerated and far from what really happens. Texas Farm Bureau Publications Director Mike Barnett addresses the common misconceptions associated with chicken factory farming in Texas and around the country on the Texas Agriculture Talks blog.
Barnett points out that these groups making outrageous claims about chicken factory farming are often pushing a vegan-based agenda. These groups would like nothing more than to convince the world that the world would… Continue reading
DIY Chicken Coop Plans Search
With more and more people looking to save money, you might be on the hunt for a DIY chicken coop plan that will enable you to build it virtually for free. Since keeping costs lower will help you invest more in the quality of care you’re able to give your chickens, DIY models really are ideal.
Before diving in to the building process though, it’s important to consider a few essential factors to make sure you’ve got everything covered.
Building Supplies
The first factor to look at with DIY Chicken Coop plans is that you’ve got access to all the… Continue reading
Chicken Factory Farming In Texas: The Hard-boiled Truth
Chicken factory farming in Texas is not at all what it is cracked up to be.
Consumers uneasily listen to horror stories about how birds suffer acute and chronic pain and are confined in unsanitary, disease-ridden chicken factory farms in Texas and other states, where they frequently succumb to heat prostration, infectious diseases and cancer.
These wild-eye claims remind me of an old saying from former president and Texas native Lyndon B. Johnson: “Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken poop from chicken salad.
Let me tell you this: You arent being fed chicken salad by these… Continue reading