What And How Much Do You Feed Egg Strain Pullets?
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What And How Much Do You Feed Egg Strain Pullets?

Getting started with raising your own chickens for eggs? Congratulations! Having your own eggs will give you a nice start into the world of raising your own food, plus the taste is unlike anything you can get at the store! Now that you’ve decided to get your pullets, what should you be feeding them, how…

How Long Does It Take To Process A Meat Chicken?
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How Long Does It Take To Process A Meat Chicken?

Congratulations! Raising and processing your own chickens is a huge leap towards great nutrition and self sufficiency! At first, processing your own meat birds can be confusing. How long does it take to get the bird ready to go into your freezer? Processing a broiler takes 5.5 minutes if plucking by hand and 4 minutes…

How To Successfully Use A Still Air Egg Incubator
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How To Successfully Use A Still Air Egg Incubator

Deciding to hatch your own eggs can open up the world of poultry to you and your family! With a bit of planning and care during incubation, you can have a great hatch with a still air incubator. Successful still air egg incubation requires starting with fresh, unwashed fertile eggs and monitoring the incubator for…

Raising 25 Broilers: Beginner’s Guide To Area Needed And Options
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Raising 25 Broilers: Beginner’s Guide To Area Needed And Options

Raising your first batch of broilers? Super! Now you need to know how to house and care for your new chicks. For a batch of 25 broilers, you need: 16″ diameter heat circle in a 4×4 brooder area for the chicks, followed by a 62.5 sq. ft. (or larger) grow out pen to be used…

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6 Tips To Naturally Fatten Up Your Chickens

A happy, healthy chicken will naturally “fatten up”. So the real question is: what do we as chicken owners need to do to make sure that our chickens are happy and healthy? Chickens need plenty of water, appropriate feed, grit and a comfortable place to live to naturally reach ideal body condition. Great news, whether…

Making Your Own Broiler Feed (2 Options)
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Making Your Own Broiler Feed (2 Options)

Tired of paying for brand name broiler feed at brand name prices? Those 50 pound bags can add up, especially when your broilers get close to processing size! What are your feed alternatives? Can you make your own broiler feed? Broiler feed is made of ground corn, soybean meal, calcium carbonate and poultry mineral mix….