Many people in Ontario own small flocks of poultry, such as backyard chickens or other birds raised for meat and/or eggs, hobby birds, show/ornamental birds, sport birds and pet birds.
Learning how to care for your birds is critical to...
Episode 1196. Today, poultry nutritionist Dr. Curran Gehring, Ph.D., will be teaching us all about nutrition for baby chicks. Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer®, brought to you by Tucker Milling, LLC., is a nationally broadcast web radio show...
What exactly are heritage chickens? For that matter, what is a heritage turkey, duck, or goose? By definition, heritage poultry breeds share these important characteristics:
They are standard breeds
They mate naturally
They can live a long time
They...
If you raise poultry as a hobby, or on a small-scale, it’s typically not feasible to mix your own feed. Larger-scale commercial operations maintain the ability to purchase bulk amounts of the individual ingredients, plus have the equipment to...
No matter what animals roam your farm, determining which feed to purchase can feel like a big task. When choosing the right feed, you’ll want to look at and compare feed tags. But the question is, how do you...
Christa Hartsook
Program Coordinator, Small Farms/Acreage Living
Iowa State University Extension & Outreach
One of the fastest growing trends for small and beginning farmers is backyard poultry. Typically, poultry offers a small-scale livestock enterprise without requiring large amount of capital, land, time...
Source: Cackle hatchery
To some chicken keepers, a dual purpose breed is one that’s suitable for both meat and eggs. To other chicken keepers, dual purpose refers to a breed that’s suitable for neither meat nor eggs. So exactly what...
BECCA TUCKER
FLORIDA /
| 08 JUL 2021 | 03:23
The storyline is familiar by now. Quarantined families flocked to keep chickens, which promised not only a supply of fresh eggs at a time when the food chain was shuddering, but also entertainment...
Penn Vet's Sherrill Davison reminds poultry owners to collect eggs often. Eggs that sit for too long in the nest
may have an increased risk of infection.
With the COVID-19 pandemic wearing on, many Americans are turning to raising poultry to...
Serious disease outbreaks are recognized as one of the poultry industry’s greatest vulnerabilities because they have the potential to impact not only small backyard flocks, but also the multi-billion dollar commercial poultry industry and even the entire U.S. economy...
