what is the best way to raise chickens on a chicken farm?
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to raise them in chicken houses.from start to finish,
to raise them in chicken houses.from start to finish,
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I guess the most common way is a skyscraper of cages where they are given a regular dose of antibiotics to keep them from dying under those conditions. I would prefer to give them room to walk and the freedom to hunt for vegetation and insects. But I have only raised chickens for my own use. I would let them roam until the end of the day when I would use grain and table scraps to lure them into their house. I provided comfortable nest but still some would hide their eggs. I soon had 100% entering the house at night as the ones who didn’t were killed by predators.
Hold them a lot when they are ******. This makes it so that they like people. When they get a little bigger, and start to molt into ugly little pullets you can put them outside. If you say something every time you feed them like “heeeere chicky chicky” they will all automatically come whenever you say that after a bit. That way you can let them out of their coop during the day to eat all the delicious little bugs in your yard and then call them in at night. If you have a garden and don’t want them destroying it you can use a chicken tractor which is basically a giant wire mesh box that they stay in during the day and you can choose where they go and “forage” for bugs and whatnot. The best tasting eggs, if thats what you are raising them from, come from bug fed chickens, with organic corn feed in the mornings. Their coop should have 2 compartments, one indoor place, with shelves that have hay for them to nest in and an outdoor area where they can eat bugs and stuff. On the outdoor part, bury the chicken wire at least 1.5 feet underground so that no animals that eat chickens can dig their way in, and make sure that all doors have 2 latches, one high up so that clever raccoons or foxes can’t open them.
well start off with a nice incubator, and make sure you cover them with lots of syrup