Keeping Chickens
Keeping chickens as pets is fun and useful. Chickens are easy to tame, not excessively noisy (as long as you don’t have a rooster) and if you keep their house clean they are not dirty and are usually very healthy. Forget the old-fashioned barnyard full of dust and dirt; you can have a neat, pretty hen house in your backyard. You can buy a kit or a ready-made hen house from most pet shops or hardware outlets.
Chickens are good for your garden. They scratch around, disturbing any weeds and peck up garden pests like snails. They are good for… Continue reading
Keeping Poultry For Eggs Production : poultry house
There are different varieties of poultry eggs. The most common reared are chicken, ducks, quails, gooses and ostriches. Eggs produced by the above mentioned birds vary in size, taste and color. They are commonly used for food especially because of their high protein value. This article explains how one can rear chicken. Chicken eggs are the most popular and readily available in the market. Rearing hens for eggs is also easy and cheap.
Chicken maturity period is approximately five months. It takes twenty to twenty two weeks for a chicken to start rearing from the day of hatching. One can… Continue reading