Category: Poultry farming

Broiler chickens are bred in order to sell as much meat as possible after slaughter. Therefore, it is extremely important that the bird gains weight quickly every day, shows good weight gain. To this end, farmers track the weight of the broiler by day as they gain live weight in order to correct...

Chickens are a good way to always have meat and eggs at home, in addition, chickens are great for earning money through breeding poultry. If this is a large poultry farm, then the chicken coops are often large and specially equipped for winter frosts. However, if you are a beginner poultry farmer and are just about to start...

We have dreams almost every night, but, alas, in most cases, already a few hours after waking up, we forget 90 what we saw. Why do geese dream? If it is important for you to know what this or that dream is talking about, try to quickly open the dream book and find out its interpretation....

At the present time, the variety and number of chicken breeds is off the charts. Among them there are exquisitely beautiful individuals worthy to take part in international exhibitions and competitions. There are purebred and hybrid species, meat, egg and mixed types of chickens. Even the most capricious chicken will find a suitable one...

Domestic duck is a waterfowl, not a very large bird, the ancestor of which is wild mallard. Some modern breeds derive their pedigree from the musky duck living in America. Ducks were domesticated for the first time 3,000 years ago in Southeast Asia, about 2,500 years ago they were tamed in Greece and Ancient...

It is difficult to find a house in the countryside where geese are not breeding. This bird is unpretentious in care, and its meat has excellent taste. If you build a small farm, then breeding geese can be seen as a small business that will generate a steady income. To...

Now, for the convenience of a person, when breeding quails, incubators are used, in which the most correct and suitable conditions are created for the maturation of eggs.As for quails, it is extremely important to preserve as many young stock as possible, since its further resale is quite profitable...

The Velzumer breed of chickens has existed for over 100 years. She was taken out in Holland at the beginning of the 20th century in a small town of the same name. The breeders were faced with the task of obtaining chickens that lay large eggs. They coped with this successfully. Since then, this line has been improved several times, therefore...

Feeding goslings at home is an extremely important aspect in keeping poultry. It depends on how correctly the gosling was fed whether it can quickly gain weight (this is especially true for broilers). Also, the quality of feeding affects when the goose will bring the first offspring,...

Thinking about breeding a nutmeg breed of poultry, farmers first of all ask themselves the question: “How many Indochka sits on eggs?”. And this is logical, because some representatives of birds refuse to do this, therefore, to get healthy offspring, you have to use an incubator....