Learn How To Raise Your Own Chickens
Raising Chickens in the City – How to Begin If You Are Interested to Start a Chicken Farm : chicken farm
If you’re interested in venturing on a small chicken farming home business, you can start by being a contract grower of a big supplier. Note that at this time, the key players of the poultry industry are already in place. Starting small by selling chicken eggs and meat to relatives, friends, and neighbors won’t do the trick. If you want to make it big, get into a relatively huge farm raising chickens in city and learn the mazes of the business by being a grower.
Established chicken farms can serve the needs of big food businesses and corporations. These farms… Continue reading
Chicken Coop Building Plans – Farm Fresh Eggs Everyday! : chicken farming
Everyone is talking about chicken coops these days, and everyone is interested in the idea of having their own farm fresh eggs available to them right in their own backyard. But as you are coming to the realization of the matter, you also know that maybe you need a little advice before you begin, and this is a great step in the right direction.
Building your very own chicken coop can be very rewarding, but you need to consider some specific things first.
Ordinances:
City building ordinances can be an issue for some of you, so make sure you check… Continue reading
Free-Range Poultry on an Amish Farm : poultry house
Melvin Fisher started raising pastured poultry on his Organic Grass Farm in 1997. In 1998, after seeing an article on the free-range system in a magazine Melvin ordered the book Free-Range Poultry Production and Marketing by Herman Beck-Chenoweth. Later he attended a workshop on range poultry production. In 1999 Melvin built six poultry skids using the plans in the book and stocked each with 400 Cornish Cross broilers. He retired the pastured poultry pens and never looked back. In 2002 he produced more than 6,000 chickens and 150 turkeys and dressed them out in America’s only U.S.D.A. Inspected non-electric poultry… Continue reading
Starting a Chicken Farm the Organic Way – Guidelines for Raising Organic Chickens In Your Backyard
The concept of an organic chicken is still in the gray areas even now as the certain conditions that are required for organically starting a chicken farm could be varied and sometimes conflicting from one farm to another. So what really is the meaning of “organic” in the whole context of organic chicken farming? A very safe and established definition for an organic chicken would be a chicken freely raised in a cage-free environment, wholly dependent of natural and chemical-free organic feeds all their lives. They are free, and lead stress-free lives by roaming around much of the day, eating… Continue reading