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Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? [1]
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Date: 2025-01-24
Chickens, with the Avian flu eggs are getting difficult to get. For all you people who already raise poultry please read and add your two cents.
Chickens are easy to buy, often local feed stores order and carry chicks. If you get straight run you will probably get 40-60% cockerel’s (roosters). You do not need a lot of space for a small flock and can even get nice small coops to assemble your self or premade. You want a dry space that is not drafty and I recommend industrial hemp bedding as it is a lot dryer than straw. Save the straw for the nest boxes. Myself I prefer Buff Brahma chickens because they are a bigger bird, Hardy and do well in colder climates as well as extra cockerels reach eating size in eight months (an added bonus).
Here is a link to a repute hatchery hoovershatchery.com
To build a coop link easycoops.com
Or you can use a small shed with a fenced area. Keep the fenced area covered to help keep out wild bird manure. This will help protect the health of you flock.
If you want the chickens to regularly get fresh grass and you have space buy or build a chicken tractor thisbeautifulfarmlife.com/…
Chickens need fresh water daily and bringing in a large water for a small flock is a bad idea because the water will go stagnate before the water is emptied. Occasionally you will get algae build up. When this happens a toilet brush bought for this job only will scrub the inside of the water nice and clean. Five or ten birds a two gallon watered works nice.
Feeding the birds, organic feed is available as well as regular feed. The chickens will do nicely with vegetable scraps thrown in to the coop. With a small flock five or six birds you only need to spend a minimum of fifteen minutes a day tending birds and gathering egg.
This is a good start for what you need to know, brooding chicks is a task of creativity using a large tub and a small heater of one sort or another. A draft free space in an enclosed porch or garage works well although I did it in the kitchen corner once, only once. Link to brooding extension.colostate.edu/…
Enjoy your new flock it is easy, but work.
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