In this video, I explain how I set my brooder up and transfer newly hatched coturnix quail chicks from the incubator to the brooder.
This video shows how I release our quail from the brooder to the pen now that they are old enough and I describe the signs I look for when deciding the best time to do it. I have also uploaded another ...
I am a poultry farmer in Kitengela and I noticed something unique my neighbour also a poultry farmer, was doing. Recently he had a broody chicken that had sat on eggs for the entire 21 days of ...
Winter should be just as good a time to raise chickens as any other time of year. With more latitude on temperature and air ...
We’re trying to get the depleted (we think raccoons) chicken flock to reproduce itself, but I am not confident.You’d think that reproductive behaviors — not that kind! This is a family newspaper — ...
Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...
Fowl Play: A History of Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate by Sally Coulthard. Apollo 2024 ($27.99) As you’re reading this, there are more than 20 billion chickens alive on the planet. They live ...
When Corey Leird refers to his “girls,” it is important to clarify if he is talking about his wife, Racheal, and their two daughters Mayley and Mabel, or the hundreds of pullets he is raising in his ...