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AI0099There's no real difference in the taste of brown eggs v. white eggs, though I always use brown eggs simply b/c the yolks seem to...
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Feed stores usually sell two simple kinds of layer feed- crumbles and pellets. Either one will work, though some chickens prefer...
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Free-Range for - Space to roam freely, organic, no pesticieds used, higher quality produce.Against- More expensive, and hard to...
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my dog licked my foot.
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You should send an email to everyone in your contacts for help.
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yes the bible say so
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Depends where you are. England in quite wet, with a good amount of humidity anyway. Usually a humidity level of around 40-50% is...
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In zoological anatomy, a cloaca is the posterior opening that serves as the only such opening for the intestinal, reproductive,...
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It probably has some sort of infection.I would immediately call your vet.
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This occurs as chicken eggs get old.
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it is a rare cure that you can only find in Tenochtitlan, Mexico
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Hens do this either to rest a sore leg (which can happen due to normal chicken activities-no need to worry!) or to warm up a cold...
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yes a chicken bone does have marrow
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Yes! They'll eat most food scraps; ours even eat old grilled cheeses. Make sure to give them greens, too.
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There are chickens for sale in Blackheath London from blackheath poultry.
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The egg came first because chickens are the distant cousins of dinosaurs. The dinosaurs evolved and one day a dinosaur layed an...
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Both sexes change color as they mature. Females are typically a lighter color 'red' and both sexes can become a bleached out red...
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The Difference Between White Eggs and Brown EggsThe first and obvious difference is their color, the second is the type of...
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Did you know they have a laying season? This is dependent on the length of the daylight hours. In the north when days are shorter...
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some times being the first season does make a difference but the hen may not be done laying all that she will lay in most...
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We have 5 month old chickens that lay brown eggs, there not big chickens, but one layed a 3.5" long by 6.8" round egg. Very...
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Chickens will eat about anything they can get their beaks on. Of course the husk would have to be bite size, but my chickens...
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I just purchased a Pekin and it gets along very well with my hens!!!!! It's like they're all the same bird. I was told not to put...
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Most duck eggs are larger than a chicken egg. PoultryTalk's Response: Smell the egg, duck eggs have a scent chicken eggs dont....
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Yes, it may be small.
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maybe maybe not Chickens will eat almost anything! My chickens love to eat the seeds out of the huge zucchini raw, if they...
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You can have chickens as pets anywhere.
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by the food fed to it and the male chicken (cockrel if you want to be scientfic) that fertalised it. hope this helps!
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immediately the fresher the better
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Alamo fencing sells rolls 2'X50' from $25-$35 depending on how much you buy at a time. Google search Alamo fencing and chicken...
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To provide us with eggs. You see, they are domesticated. For thousands of years they have been bred to do just what they do...
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Yes, but the wings are too small for it to fly UPDATE: A big misunderstanding, chickens can't fly. I myself have chickens, and...
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You can keep "chicken feed" available to them 24/7 byrumjr I feed my chicken two time each day. Chickens should eat all there...
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AnswerI had a rooster that all of a sudden lost his balance, but he did not die, I knew that when one rooster is injured that...
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Chikens are very fun & friendly pets with a lot of personality !
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Yes. Bones=/=vertebrate. Backbone=vertebrate
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well after about 2 years a hen will not normally produce as many eggs. They are called a "spent hen" in the industry due to this....
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He balances himself on the hen by flapping his wings, then lowers his tail in direct contact with the hen, where the passage of...
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Chickens do not have nipples because they don't suckle their young. When a chick is hatched, it automatically begins eating...
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Usually there is only one egg yolk in an egg. But there have been nine found in one egg.
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Layer, when defining a chicken is a bird used to produce eggs.
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three weeks another view Eggs in the shell store quite well for long periods of time in the refrigerator without spoiling....
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Chickens eat just about everything. Odd bits of leftover popcorn will be gobbled up almost before it hits the ground. Try giving...
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Not all chickens, some chickens are male and others are female. Chickens are the collective noun of the species. The female...
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30-40 mins or until juices run clear.
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15 to 30 breaths a minute
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To keep hens and get eggs you will need housing with room for them to roost and lay. They can be kept in a coop and moved around...
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Often a sign of aging and or poor nutrition. The hens comb will weaken as they age out and stop laying. Try adding a water...
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i think the egg came first you don't necessarily need a chicken to have an egg it could be a hybrid egg that would hatch to be...
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Actually, you can eat the fertilized eggs. It really makes no difference. The answer to your question is that yes, hens lay...
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There are several meanings to 'hatch'. There's the accesway into a loft or into the hold of a ship, there's the verb as of a...
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They do that because they want to when they wake up!!
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A young rooster is called a cockerel, a young hen is a pullet
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Chicken coop, henhouse, chicken house.
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Not just chickens raised in barns are given medicine. Even free range "organic" hens are given the occasional treatment. Chickens...
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This question is ambiguous. If you want to know what the technical term is for a mother hen sitting on her egg, that would be...
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The chickens that KFC use are not caged. The chickens used by KFC are called broilers and broilers are not raised in cages at...
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No. But there has been studies done on whether difference in temperatures affect the gender of the CHICK in the egg, and...
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Female: HenMale: CockYoung: Either a cheeper/chick or a covey.
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baby chicks also eat bread
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If you are candling an egg (looking inside with a bright light) You may see one or a number of small dark spots. This will most...
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Yep. the ortho might not like it but i eat it all the time and i have had braces for almost 2 years
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Embryo
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The best eggs if you can find them are eggs layed locally (neighbor) 2nd best are free range eggs from grocery store, 3rd best is...
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this is a rubbish question, 'are chickens easy to look after?' the answer depends in how good you are with animals is you a crap...
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The eggs of a hen are fertilized before they form a hard shell, by the sperm from a rooster that has mated with the hen.
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The hen is brooding. i.e. she is a brooding hen.
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The two kinds of chickens (besides the many varieties of the species) are broilers and layers. Broilers are genetically modified...
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YES AS LONG AS THEY ARE NOT NOISY IT SHOULD BE OK.
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It really depends, to eat or hatch. Make sure you have a breeder's game farm license from the state in which you reside and you...
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At Maple Leaf, we made a choice to raise all Prime Naturally* chickens on our proprietary VEGETABLE GRAIN feed - a wholesome...
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A young hen, less than a year old, is called a pullet.
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Proper training is the answer to this age old farm problem. I have two dogs on my farm and have had both kill and eat chickens...
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AnswerA cockerel is a young rooster. that is from the age of 4 months to 12 months. Then from the age 12 months and above will be...
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i have raised laying hens for 25 yrs and sometimes they do quit laying altogether. but believe it or not you can spice up their...
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yes all sorts of animals have kidneys
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33 deg F Chickens are raised just about everywhere man lives. Alaska,Iceland,Baffin Island etc. All very cold area's. A...
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Gallus gallus is the red jungle fowl and from them came Gallus domesticus, the chicken we know today. Full scientific...
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Eggs that come from other chickens that came from older chickens that probably came from an egg of another chicken.
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The hen sits on the eggs.
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There is no difference except the words you use to describe them.
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Baby chicks are programed by nature to peck for food and water, search out warmth, and stay in contact with their family units as...
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A neutered male chicken is called a CAPON. Capons have a faster rate of growth, and more tender flesh, than an unaltered rooster.
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depending on the breed, the Serama is the smallest chicken in the world and it is similar in size to a 330ml coke can. while the...
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Most keep them in cages so that the wild animals and other predators can't get them. Sometimes they stay in cages so they lay...
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