Chicken coops plans

How to build a better birdcage, including diagrams, instructions, photographs.

by Harlan Attfield Raising Rabbits is a Hare-raising Business

A beginner’s guide to raising rabbits, including a rabbit barn, pens, feeders and waterers, breedin…

Be Fair To This Fowl

Be Fair To This Fowl July/August 1982 Unless you’ve owned a flock yourself, chances are you’ll …

Chickens are already an integral part of human life. Chickens are one of the major sources of animal meat, aside from pork and fish. As a business, they offer an opportunity for people to earn big that’s why there are many poultry farms out there. One of the major customers for poultry farms are the major fast-food companies, although some of them have their own chicken farms to supply their …

Dear Cecil:

I am far from being the world’s biggest sucker when it comes to advertising gimmicks, but I find myself succumbing to the legend “cage free” on packages of eggs. These eggs cost at least a buck more per dozen than regular eggs. I tell myself that cage-free chickens are probably no better off than their sisters kept in cages (probably they’re just packed tighter into …

Sustainable Poultry: Production Overview – Part IIIBy Anne Fanatico, NCAT Agriculture Specialist – This is the third of three article’s from the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) which provides information on raising poultry on pasture, including descriptions of production systems and facilities, as well as detailed nuts-and-bolts information.Sustainable Poultry: Production …

Poultry Shield is widely recognised as the most powerful non-caustic cleaning product on the market.

Instructions for use in Free Range units.

Stage 1 Before de-population of the unit, spray liberally with a powerful cleaning product. Ensure enough product is used to soak into all joints of the equipment and nesting boxes. (This also gives a comfortable environment when removing equipment …

Legislative Involvement

Legislative Issues Stopped a bill to cover or net live haul trucks.

Passed legislation making it illegal to discharge a weapon within 300 yard of a poultry house without permission of owner.

Passed the Right to Farm or Nuisance Bill.

Introduced and passed legislation that would grant sales tax exemptions on building materials, …

LIVE POULTRY MARKETS

Live poultry markets are storefront slaughterhouses in which chickens, turkeys, ducks, peacocks,chukars(partridges), quails, guinea fowl, pigeons, and pheasants are forced to sitfor hours and days in filthy cages awaiting slaughter in a bloody back room. Live-bird markets are similarto live-bird auctions; however; an auction comprises birds assembled from various other …

Click for PDF • Order printed copies “Free-Range” Poultry and EggsNot All They’re Cracked Up to Be

“Free-range” evokes a positive image of chickens and turkeys living outdoors with plenty of fresh air, sunshine and open space to roam in.

“Cage-free” conveys a similar impression of hens living “free” as nature intended. What are the realities behind “free-range” and …

From Poultry Hub In Australia there are three main alternative production systems adopted by poultry producers. These include free range and organic, for both the production of meat and eggs and barn, for egg production. Such production systems provide the consumer with a choice over the methods by which their food is produced and includes issues associated with taste, welfare and …

Breeder Sites

The Chook Shed Great information, especially show poultry. New Zealand Poultry Info, messages, and directory. Robyn Vivians Web site Breeder from S.A., photos, info, birds for sale etc. Blue Hills Poultry Stud Large Breeder/collector from Qld. birds for sale etc. Dans Langshans Large Breeder of Langshans from NSW. Caladenia Cottage Breeder of Pekin bantams & Silkies. WA …