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chicken care

  1. Keystone Poultry Farm

    Poultry DEBEAKING

    All chicks are debeaked without anaesthetic which causes acute and chronic pain and leads to difficulty in feeding and sometimes to death. It’s such an invasive procedure performed with a hot blade machine, Their beaks contain nerve endings and blood supply and if you trim too much it causes so...
  2. nedward

    Considerations for free-range chicken farming

    The free-range system seems to be simple and economical when it comes to feeding. However, you need to know that the nutrient intake of free-range birds (whether indigenous or exotic) is barely enough to meet their maintenance requirements and support production you must therefore consider...
    • nedward
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  3. nedward

    Poultry Controlling the egg laying cycle

    Is it normal for laying hens to skip laying eggs, and if so what's the cause? In egg production with birds that have been confirmed to be good layers, there is always a naturally occurring period within which the birds don't lay (called skip) and period of laying (called clatch). This skip and...
  4. Keystone Poultry Farm

    Poultry Vices are bad or abnormal behaviours observed among chicken.

    Vices are any bad or abnormal behaviours observed among chicken.....they include egg eating and cannibalism..... Causes of egg eating--1.too much light in the chicken coup. 2.too much exposure of eggs.. 3.calcium...
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