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AI0099in the 12th century dr martyn discovered that humans were related to chickens. if u say ber ber ber you say it like a chicken
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Your rooster will adjust just fine, and may even be somewhat happy. Any offspring he may sire might be smaller than had the sire...
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If the brood hen is with them, they sleep under the hen. They stay safe and warm under her wings and body. Chicks raised in an...
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The dutch bantam lays more than an average large fowl. (At 270 a year plus.) But is still one of the smallest. The rhode island...
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In most chickens it is white meat.
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Chickens do not urinate. They are uricotelic which means they expel uric acid instead of urea or ammonia like mammals. Birds use...
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Chickens can develop scabs for several reasons. Picking by other members of the flock can draw blood which scabs over, if this is...
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No, mine used to eat tomatoes. Don't let them eat the plant though it's toxic!
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No. Chickens do not have pores. Chickens do not sweat and have no reason to have pores in the skin. When you see a plucked...
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Eggs should be turned once in the morning when you wake up and once before you go to bed. All you have to do is flip the egg over...
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The same as any other hen. A lot of it has to do with what bloodline they are, how well you take care of them, and how much...
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idk lolz why would u ask that???
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yes and oatmeal and yogurt and spaghetti. The only thing so far that my girls do not like is fresh broccoli and celery. This was...
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Poultry doesn't have 'cuts' like other animals. You get parts, typically, breast, thigh, wing, and leg. Sometimes the back is...
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In a supermarket or delicatessen !
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No, chickens do not waddle they can walk normal. =)
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While all chickens can in fact swim, most do not prefer the experience. Chicks raised with ducklings will often venture out on...
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FCR = total Feed consumed by birds/total weight gaine.g.1000 broilers consumed 3500 kg feed in 45 days of rearingTotal wight of...
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I would say that there are between 3 and 4 chickens per human at any given moment. this is purely speculation but working...
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Chicken feed, and lots of it!
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Since buffalo wings are chicken wings with a sauce on them, they have the vitamins found in chicken wings plus whatever might be...
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It is the Wattle used to attract a female mate and only found on male turkeys.
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I want chicken for dinner tonight. My chicken was not hard to raise. My chicken bit me on my finger.
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Chicks are hatched with down feathers. These are smaller and lack the barbules and hooklets of an adult chicken feather. These...
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You cant it has to be fertalized by a rooster and eggs you buy in a store are factory made
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Hens do not lay eggs for humans to eat. They lay eggs to reproduce. Humans just learned that they were a healthy food source and...
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Feathersite is one of the best sites on chickens. It has tons of pictures. See link below.Cackle Hatchery has a lot of great...
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More or less 30 person...depends upon your ingredients or extenders
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Yes, a member of the grouse family the now extinct heath hen was an omnivore with insects and worms being part of its diet.
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You can't stop 'em from crowing, but you can muffle the noise (between certain hours) by keeping them inside your house (in...
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Broiler starter- for young chicks. * Broiler finisher- for marketable chickens. * Straight broiler mash- for chickens of any...
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In a very small operation, the chicken is restrained (usually by sliding them upside-down into a large funnel with the small tube...
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There are many methods to catching a rooster. Some are - Chase him into a corner, then pick him up. Chase him (into a corner or...
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Poultry is a category of domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of collecting their eggs, or raising for their meat...
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You can put a vitamin tonic into their water, otherwise it is part of their normal life cycle. Feeding extra does not hasten the...
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Trimming a Rooster's Spurs Yes you most certainly can! Be sure not to cut them too short and cause bleeding. If you aren't...
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Chickens, like all birds, reproduce sexually by laying eggs. The male chicken (rooster) sits on top of the female chicken (hen)...
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Roosters are not the only ones that do this, in fact it is the hen that will most likely start to eat another dead chicken.
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They can be called a clutch, a brood, a nest, or a flock. Unhatched eggs are usually called a clutch. Actual chicks are often...
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It is always preferable to use a broody hen. Hens don't care where the eggs came from, once they go broody, they will sit on a...
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Chickens are covered in feathers. These help the chicken to keep warm. They also help a chicken to fly, or at least to slow its...
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The egg white because the yolk contains more fat then the white.
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Take it to the vet. Bites on any animal can easily get infected and the animal could easily die. Birds stress very easily and can...
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My Vet says that chickens and roosters just touch to mate that they do not have the "normal" reproductive external organs. So,...
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Yes, but only for a limited time. A moving chicken is either not really alive or is not really headless. A completely beheaded...
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Yes. Banty is just short for Bantam
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The wattle on a chicken is used for the chicken burgers at McDonalds. They use the parts no one else uses
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A Leghorn rooster is a large white bird with a red comb.
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yes rabbits can eat blu waffle as they are quite the intelliigent animal thanks
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The New Hampshire Red breed is a very early maturing breed and grows rapidly. Eggs production should start at about 5 to six...
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Yes, a polish hen may be easily identified from a rooster of the same breed. The roosters have much more dramatic beards and...
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I find the wet based egg batter works well for deep frying and the dry flour and spices is best for light frying.
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There are four ways to sex a chick correctly 1) By color. In some breeds, the male chick will be one color, while the female...
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One view:She will set on them all at first, but if she doesn't feel heat coming from the egg which the growing embryo gives off,...
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An injured chick is going to take personalized care. It needs to be separated from the rest of the brood or as it gets weaker the...
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YES. We didn't think it could happen so we let one little Bantam hen keep an egg because she wanted to lay on it. Then all of a...
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Different types of feed. Corn tends to make the yolk a lighter colour whereas barley or rye makes it a little darker, for example.
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Without getting too technical, it has to do with the molecular structure of protein molecules within the egg whites changing....
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Ideally, you should have a 50/50 male to female ratio when hatching chicks. However, some people say that there are more like 75%...
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around 40-45 grams of protein. Other types of cooking will decrease the amount at least 10 grams. Boiled chicken is also the...
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It generally depends on which type of bird you are talking about. For example, a female chicken is a hen, while a female peacock...
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When they first hatch and for the first few weeks of growth. You can also use a heat lamp if the temperatures in the chicken coop...
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I have a six year old and a four year old, and we raise silkie bantams. They are wonderful pets and are great with our kids. They...
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Yes, chickens can get cold feet. Even specially bred chickens like Cochin with feathered feet will be effected by cold...
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One view Until a rooster is one-year-old he is defined as a cockerel. As for maturation...they think they are already grown up...
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One viewUse a large object (blanket, piece of plywood) and "herd" them into a corner. Then slowly and calmly remove them to where...
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32 degrees F or lower without protection from the cold. Eggs have the same freezing point as water. If ice is being formed...
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The flap is called a wattle. A bright, big wattle is the sign of a healthy chicken
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All the answers below work to some extent, the main theme in each answer is the same. The broody hen just wants to be left alone...
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It's called "chick starter," medicated or non-chick starter or chick mash. Watch out though: many brands of chick starter have...
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Just like chickens and any other bird, peahens can also lay eggs without a mate.
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There are several things that can happen. If the egg is laid by a brood hen, the egg will join the clutch and be incubated by...
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When I bake frozen chicken wings, there are a couple of things I do. Place parchment paper on a cookie sheet(makes clean-up way...
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If you have an incubator she's a keeper. I give my brood hen my newly hatched peeps shells and all. ( i do this at night). at...
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i have chickens and more and i have insurance.. This will differ from state to state, but a couple I know of would...
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Roosters come in all sizes from Banties (small versions of standard breeds) to very large standard breeds like Jersey Giants. A...
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ostrich can sit very long time in her eggs. sometimes ostrich sit on her eggs until it hatch.
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One view:You can't unless you have a broody hen on eggs that are about to hatch. Put the little ducklings under that hen at...
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After the rooster has mated with a hen the sperm packet is good for about 10 days. Unlike most creatures the birds do not need...
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There are many places, such as: -Local chicken keepers, farms, and farmers markets -Fairs and bird shows -Classifieds ...
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If it is hot, you do not have long and should collect them as soon as possible. If it is as cool as a refrigerator, you have 30...
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A toaster oven will work, too. Make sure to keep the temperature around the egg at 99.5, turn the egg four times a day - moms do...
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Make sure you have them in an area that's as dark as possible. Even a streetlight will keep them going. Or if you visit them at...
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Try 20 min. to 1/2 hr. at 350. When the chicken starts to come off the bone, it's done. It usually takes me longer to cook...
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Becz,(chips/potato)sugar digestion start earlier from mouth by saliva than the protien &fat digestion in intestine.body...
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There have been mixed reports, but in any case it is smarter to keep your pets/ivestock separate - as chickens and bunnies need...
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He is protecting his hens and his property. He is also showing you he is the man - sort of like he would react around another...
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