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May312023 by Maria Risa MasaNo Comments
Chicks Brooding: How Long Do Chicks Need a Heater?

Chicks Brooding: How Long Do Chicks Need a Heater?

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A heat lamp or any type of heater is needed during the early days of chicks brooding. So your chicks are several weeks old, and maybe you've got them inside, and they're starting to stink, am I right? I've already done that! So, let's talk about how long chicks need a heat lamp. Everything I have read says to start at 95ºF and decrease 5 degrees each week until you reach 70ºF. That temperature drop information can be helpful if you live in a cold climate, but what if you live in a warm climate and it rarely reaches 70ºF? To really understand when is the right time to wean chicks from the heat source, we need to know what is keeping them warm. We all know that chickens keep warm with their feathers. The feathers act as a heat trap in colder climates. In warmer weather, they spread the...
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Chicken Coop Lighting: Why You Need One?

Chicken Coop Lighting: Why You Need One?

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Chicken coop lighting is one of the simple but major issues new chicken farmers are having problems with. Improper chicken coop heating may result in the deaths of chickens especially if you are growing young broilers. Should you add supplemental lighting to your chicken coop? Will hens overwinter? Learn why you might want to add a light bulb to your chicken coop. Chicken coop lighting for laying hens Hens naturally lay eggs when the days are long, and they slow down when the days get shorter in winter. This is because daylight stimulates the pituitary gland, which stimulates the hens' ovaries to produce eggs. Hens lay when they have daylight for at least 12-14 hours per day, and egg production drops significantly and may even stop once the days are shorter than this. Click Cli...
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Chicken Watering: A Comprehensive Guide

Chicken Watering: A Comprehensive Guide

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Chicken watering can be a cause of serious diseases if not done properly. There are proper ways and materials to be used when giving drinking water to your chickens so continue reading. Like all animals, chickens need clean water. Although this seems easy enough - filling a container, placing it in the chicken coop, providing them with 24-hour access - environmental factors and the best mode of delivery must be taken into account. Is a galvanized sprue the best, or will a sturdy plastic one work just fine? And then there are additives, like vitamins and supplements, that can stain or rust your shower head. So before you start working on raising chickens in the backyard, learn the water requirements for both laying hens and meat birds. Then go over a few tips and make sure you buy ...
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Why Hens Lay Eggs Outside their Nest

Why Hens Lay Eggs Outside their Nest

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Why do hens lay eggs outside their nest? This a big question most chicken farmers always ask so continue reading to find out the answer. When one or more hens do not use the nests, it can be due to different factors, both environmental and behavioral or habits. In some cases, a hen that begins to lay her eggs in places outside the nest can be very difficult to correct. However, there are factors that must be taken into account to prevent and eliminate this behavior. In general, a hen prefers to lay her eggs in nests, since she assimilates them as suitable places to lay her eggs due to space, protection, climate, and light. But if the bird assimilates some other place with better characteristics, it can opt for that other nest, even if it was under a number of boards. Hen Habits ...
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Why Do Chicks Die Inside the Egg

Why Do Chicks Die Inside the Egg

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Nowadays, more and more people are interested in chicken production, because this is a highly profitable activity in the poultry industry. However, during the egg-hatching process, there are those who have problems, as the chicks die inside the egg. If you want to know what are the causes of the death of chicks before hatching, we invite you to read this article, since the main factors of this problem and how to solve it will be described here. Reasons Why Do Chicks Die Inside the Egg That the bird dies inside the egg can be due to several reasons, ranging from a bad incubation process to the presence of diseases. The most common causes are described below. 1. Lack of ventilation and humidity Those who incubate eggs in an incubator could be doing a bad practice and not providing...
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7 of the Deadliest Chick Diseases, Treatments, and Prevention

7 of the Deadliest Chick Diseases, Treatments, and Prevention

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Chicks are prone to different kinds of diseases. Most chick diseases occur in the first weeks of the chick’s life when the chick is a newborn. Therefore, it is necessary to know which are the most frequent infections, such as being able to eliminate pathogens and treat baby chickens to avoid their death. From the first day, until after week four, it is the most prone period for there to be some transmission of infection in the chicks. That is why we invite you to know the main diseases of baby chickens and how to treat them. Most common chick diseases Like any newborn animal, chicks are more likely to get sick because they do not have a fully developed immune system, and various organs are not yet fully used to activities. This causes baby chickens to get sick frequently. The m...
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Chicken Diarrhea Home Remedy: 5 Tips You Must Know

Chicken Diarrhea Home Remedy: 5 Tips You Must Know

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Chicken diarrhea home remedy is one of the main things most chicken farmers are seeking answers online. If you are here looking for the same answer, continue reading. There are various digestive diseases that can affect chickens and one of the most common being diarrhea. This disease can be caused by several conditions and in some cases, they do not present serious risks in the life of your birds. However, it is important that you learn differences when it comes to normal or abnormal conditions. For this reason, in this article, we will talk about diarrhea in chickens and how to combat this problem with some home remedies. Stools that usually have a soft or watery consistency are called diarrhea. This problem can arise from different factors and depending on the symptoms and appearan...
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5 Natural Antibiotics for Chickens

5 Natural Antibiotics for Chickens

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As a chicken farmer, it is very important to know the different natural antibiotics for chickens so that whenever you are far from the vet, you know what to do. Like any other animal, chickens are not immune to diseases, so it is important that you are prepared for any discomfort that your birds may present. Generally, poultry farmers tend to treat the diseases of their birds with chemical or synthetic antibiotics, which if used indiscriminately, the meat of these birds can present a risk to the health of the consumer. Therefore, it is best to avoid the use of synthetic antibiotics and treat diseases with the use of natural antibiotics for chickens. Antibiotics help us prevent infections that are caused by bacteria, in the case of synthetic antibiotics, they allow us to fight b...
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Assisted Hatching: Helping Chicks Get out of Eggs

Assisted Hatching: Helping Chicks Get out of Eggs

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Assisted hatching is a process of helping the chick go out of eggs due to different reasons that I discuss below. The time it takes for a chick to hatch is 21 days. However, it sometimes happens that the chick has difficulties hatching from the egg. This problem can be due to different factors and it is essential that the breeder is prepared to be able to intervene in time and help save the animal’s life. If you want to know what to do when a chick does not come out of the egg, we invite you to continue reading this article, since here we will talk about the steps to follow to successfully remove a chicken from the egg. This process is called “assisted chick hatching”, or “assisted hatching” and must be done with total care. There are several causes that make chicks not hatch ...
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Cornish Chicken Breed Profile

Cornish Chicken Breed Profile

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The Cornish chicken is one of the most widely used breeds in the poultry industry for the production and marketing of meat. This is because it is a fairly heavy and muscular bird, and its meat is known to be quite soft and juicy. If you are interested in raising chicken for fattening, the Cornish breed is an excellent option, since it has a large amount of meat on the breast. If you want to know more about its characteristics, origin, food, etc., we invite you to continue reading this article. Origin and History of Cornish The Cornish hen, also known as Game Chicken, originated from a group of diverse birds, among which were the breeds of Aseel, White Malay, Shamo, Red Old English, and Tawny Cochinchina. The diverse characteristics of each of these races resulted in the origin of a bi...
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