Are you wondering how to tell the sex of your chicks or older chickens? The question of gender is important to many chicken keepers for a variety of reasons, most commonly because roosters are either not allowed in the neighborhood or not needed in a backyard flock. In this article, we’ll look at a variety of chicken sexing methods that make it possible to determine the gender of chickens at various ages.
Month: May 2016
Top 3 Calcium Rich Treats & Toys For Your Chickens
In order to produce eggshells the hens take calcium from their bodies, this is why every laying hen needs to have a regular supply of calcium in so she can live a healthy life. Chickens love their treats and what best way to ensure that your hens are getting enough calcium if not in the form of a treat. Giving healthy treats to your chickens can be very fun and everyone can learn to enjoy doing it. By combining different mixtures of food for your chickens they will learn to appreciate every new treat and always want more.
Shannon Stansberry has been engaged in the business of raising chickens for more than 12 years. In 2016, she accomplished the Agriculture & Natural Resources program at Mt. San Antonio College. At present, she tends to more than 80 chickens on her 4-hectare farm. Shannon regularly shares her insights and experience on how to raise healthy and contented chickens on the platform Typesofchickens.com
Top 5 Chicken Breeds For Beginners!
There are varieties of chicken breeds available everywhere.
Each breed has something different about it which makes it special – the comb, the color, the character etc.
Some breeds are more intelligent than others and that makes them easier to keep and maintain. Choosing the right breed for you is as easy as it is hard and if you are a novice chicken keeper we recommend that you get one of these 5 Chicken Breeds For Beginners.
When Raising Chickens – Beware of These Things!
There are things that every chicken keeper needs to know in order to properly care for his/her chickens. We at the typesofchicken.com team decided to do an article on this subject in the form of When Raising Chickens – Beware of These Things!
How To Care For Your Injured Chicken
Chickens are gentle, and from time to time they tend to get injured.
There are some injuries that your chickens cannot be helped with and the best thing that you as a chicken keeper can do for them is getting them euthanized.
Fortunately, most of the injuries that chickens can acquire in a well-maintained coop and run can be taken care of. For today`s article, we at the typesofchicken.com team decided to give our readers a few ideas on How To Care For Their Injured Chicken.
Shannon Stansberry has been engaged in the business of raising chickens for more than 12 years. In 2016, she accomplished the Agriculture & Natural Resources program at Mt. San Antonio College. At present, she tends to more than 80 chickens on her 4-hectare farm. Shannon regularly shares her insights and experience on how to raise healthy and contented chickens on the platform Typesofchickens.com
20 Useful Facts About Hens, Eggs And Chicken Mating!
We at the typesofchicken.com team spend a lot of time researching the subject of our upcoming articles.
While doing that research we often stumble upon pieces of information that we don’t have room for in our articles so we just keep them – interesting facts about the process of chicken keeping and chickens in general. This is the second time we have collected a bunch of facts for our readers, some time ago we gave you 40 amazing facts about chickens and now it is time for us to give you 20 fun and useful facts about hens, eggs and chicken mating.
Protein For Your Chickens – 3 Recipes!
Protein is very important for your chickens, at all of their stages of life. Protein needs to be regularly given to your chickens and it is crucial in every diet that you put them on. As most of our readers already know we at the typesofchicken.com team love our unconventional recipes for chickens. We have … Read more
Top 5 Reasons Why Keeping Chickens Is Great For You!
Keeping chickens is not simple – it takes a lot of your money, time and strength. But if you do it properly it will absolutely be worth your while. We have discussed previously on many issues concerning chicken keeping as a process, How To`s and whatnot but we haven’t scratched one of the most obvious question that helps people decide on chicken keeping. Why to keep chickens is the first question that needs to be answered on this subject and we at the typesofchicken.com team apologize for being late on the matter, but without any further ado here are the Top 5 Reasons Why Keeping Chickens Is Great For You.
