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Build a Chicken House – Chicken House Building Tips : chicken house
If you’re looking to build a chicken house, there are some important things that you must consider first before doing so. Many people just jump right into the building process and end up neglecting certain aspects which really cost them a lot of time and money in the long run.
By keeping the following building tips in mind, you will be sure you’re making all the right decisions when it comes time to building your chicken coop.
Here’s what you need to know.
Tip# 1: Always Factor In Chicken Number
The first thing to keep in mind as you go… Continue reading
The Hen House – What You Need to Consider!
Determining the hen house for you might require something thinking. There are many different aspects, such as, size and style, stationary or mobile, DIY or pre-built, cold or hot weather ready, safety, cost and ease of building as well as accessibility and cleanliness. Answering even a few of these questions will save you a lot of frustration and ensure that your experience with raising organic chicken and eggs will be one that you thoroughly enjoy.
1) Size
To maintain happy and healthy chickens, it is best to make sure that each chicken has between four and six square feet of… Continue reading
Chicken Coop Hen House – Single Or Dual Purpose Breeds in Your Chicken Coop Hen House?
Have you thought about which breed would be best for you and your family?
Some chickens are feisty and some are very mild! It’s important to determine what you are looking for before you build your chicken coop hen house. Following is a quick breakdown of some of the most common chicken breeds and their particular personality traits.
Single Purpose (Egg-Laying) Chickens – Most Common
Leghorn – white eggs, cold-hardy but combs subject to frostbite, good confined or free-range, gentle, active, tend to be noisy
Rhode Island Reds – rich brown eggs, cold-hardy and combs subject to frostbite, good confined… Continue reading
Chicken Coop Hen House! – What to Put in a Chicken Coop Hen House!
There are many things to consider before you choose a chicken coop hen house.
Knowing what you need to have included is important, as well as, knowing a little about what you want and how much you are willing to commit to raising your chickens. Let’s start with the things that your chickens will need to be healthy and happy.
Whatever chicken coop you choose will require basically the same things.
All chickens require a certain amount of living space…to get exercise, do their scratching, lay their eggs, eat and drink and feast and bugs. They also need to have… Continue reading
Chicken Hen House – How to Go About Building a Hen House : hen house
If you’ve been raising hens for any long period of time, you’ll know the importance of a hen house. If you’re serious about raising and looking after any number of hens then you need a durable hen house, no doubt about it. You have two options when it comes to hen houses – purchase a pre-built one from a farm store OR build your own. The latter option is one that is more appealing simply because it’s a cheaper option and you can customize the hen house to your own needs.
Before you even start building a chicken coop you… 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
Barney Frank – Fox In The Hen House
He recently bloodied his publicity-craving snout when The House of Representatives recently passed the “Say on Pay” bill. Now, blustering Congressman Barney Frank is looking for fresh prey. He clamored for and proposed this bill (who else) and insisted that such legislation (which allows shareholders a non-binding vote on CEO compensation) is necessary to stop run-away executive compensation. Hwoever, its purpose is thinly veiled; it is to shame directors into lowering CEO pay when in fact it is really a violation of shareholder rights in that it usurps corporate control the purpose of which is to maximize shareholder wealth.
The… Continue reading