The document discusses how chickens are often viewed as cute and cuddly pets but are actually carnivorous animals that will eat insects, small rodents, and other small animals. While they may be fed grains, chickens in their natural environment hunt and eat other live creatures. The document also notes that chickens can be aggressive when protecting their young from potential threats.
In this issue we find out how a single hen can be as profitable as a backyard flock, and how general statements are dangerous and circumstances alter cases every time. We also find out which month is the most profitable one to have pullets come into lay and one of the biggest killers of hens which is also one of the easiest to prevent.
In this issue we find the secret of productiveness is reproductiveness, how good or bad wheat bran is for poultry, potential issues with barred rock chicks that take their time with feathering, inbreeding and 'swapping roosters', the question of feeding white com or yellow corn and a novel way to prevent chicks crowding at night.
City of San Antonio Code: Regulating the Care and Control of Animalspleasure16
The document provides an introduction and overview of a teacher's guide called "Just Hatched" created by the British Columbia Waterfowl Society. The guide includes lesson plans, activities, and materials to teach young children about bird life cycles, different types of nests, and what baby birds need. It covers topics like camouflage, nest types, egg facts, hatching, and the needs of growing baby birds. The guide is intended to support classes visiting a bird sanctuary in the spring to see ducklings, goslings, and young cranes.
Over generations, two populations of rabbits in a desert evolved into separate species due to adaptation to their environments through natural selection. Hawks preyed on rabbits, eliminating those with coats that did not camouflage them against the color of the local soil. Over time, the rabbit populations on opposite sides of the desert developed distinctly light and dark coats, with genes for the other coat color disappearing. When a flood separated the populations, their genetic differences could no longer mix through breeding, allowing them to continue evolving as distinct species.
Livestock needs and yields for on the roadnephelps
The document analyzes the livestock needs and yields of dairy goats, chickens, and angora rabbits for suitability on a homestead farm. Dairy goats are well-suited as they can utilize 30 acres of pastureland through rotational grazing and provide milk, cheese and other dairy products. Chickens provide eggs but require protection from predators. Angora rabbits are low maintenance and their fiber can be harvested and spun without sacrificing the animal.
The canary originated from small brownish-green birds found on the Canary Islands. The canary is a domesticated pet that was brought from the Canary Islands to homes in Europe for its pleasant song. There are many breeds of canary that differ in appearance but share a common ancestor. Canaries require a spacious cage with various perches and should be provided a healthy diet including grains, seeds, fruits and vegetables with a cuttlebone for calcium. Breeding canaries involves using a double cage with a removable barrier, providing nesting materials once mating occurs so the female can lay and incubate 4-6 eggs over 13-14 days.
The document discusses rabbits as an invasive pest species in Australia and efforts to control rabbit populations:
- Rabbits were introduced to Australia in the 1800s and have since overrun much of the country, with populations once reaching 10 billion. They threaten native flora and fauna.
- Control methods have included poisoning, trapping, and introducing myxomatosis virus. Myxomatosis initially killed 99% of rabbits but they have developed resistance.
- Ongoing problems include the rabbits' high breeding rate, the lack of a national monitoring system, and the difficulty of controlling them across Australia's diverse landscapes. Scientists continue to search for effective eradication solutions to this "ecological nightmare."
In this issue we find out how a single hen can be as profitable as a backyard flock, and how general statements are dangerous and circumstances alter cases every time. We also find out which month is the most profitable one to have pullets come into lay and one of the biggest killers of hens which is also one of the easiest to prevent.
In this issue we find the secret of productiveness is reproductiveness, how good or bad wheat bran is for poultry, potential issues with barred rock chicks that take their time with feathering, inbreeding and 'swapping roosters', the question of feeding white com or yellow corn and a novel way to prevent chicks crowding at night.
City of San Antonio Code: Regulating the Care and Control of Animalspleasure16
The document provides an introduction and overview of a teacher's guide called "Just Hatched" created by the British Columbia Waterfowl Society. The guide includes lesson plans, activities, and materials to teach young children about bird life cycles, different types of nests, and what baby birds need. It covers topics like camouflage, nest types, egg facts, hatching, and the needs of growing baby birds. The guide is intended to support classes visiting a bird sanctuary in the spring to see ducklings, goslings, and young cranes.
Over generations, two populations of rabbits in a desert evolved into separate species due to adaptation to their environments through natural selection. Hawks preyed on rabbits, eliminating those with coats that did not camouflage them against the color of the local soil. Over time, the rabbit populations on opposite sides of the desert developed distinctly light and dark coats, with genes for the other coat color disappearing. When a flood separated the populations, their genetic differences could no longer mix through breeding, allowing them to continue evolving as distinct species.
Livestock needs and yields for on the roadnephelps
The document analyzes the livestock needs and yields of dairy goats, chickens, and angora rabbits for suitability on a homestead farm. Dairy goats are well-suited as they can utilize 30 acres of pastureland through rotational grazing and provide milk, cheese and other dairy products. Chickens provide eggs but require protection from predators. Angora rabbits are low maintenance and their fiber can be harvested and spun without sacrificing the animal.
The canary originated from small brownish-green birds found on the Canary Islands. The canary is a domesticated pet that was brought from the Canary Islands to homes in Europe for its pleasant song. There are many breeds of canary that differ in appearance but share a common ancestor. Canaries require a spacious cage with various perches and should be provided a healthy diet including grains, seeds, fruits and vegetables with a cuttlebone for calcium. Breeding canaries involves using a double cage with a removable barrier, providing nesting materials once mating occurs so the female can lay and incubate 4-6 eggs over 13-14 days.
The document discusses rabbits as an invasive pest species in Australia and efforts to control rabbit populations:
- Rabbits were introduced to Australia in the 1800s and have since overrun much of the country, with populations once reaching 10 billion. They threaten native flora and fauna.
- Control methods have included poisoning, trapping, and introducing myxomatosis virus. Myxomatosis initially killed 99% of rabbits but they have developed resistance.
- Ongoing problems include the rabbits' high breeding rate, the lack of a national monitoring system, and the difficulty of controlling them across Australia's diverse landscapes. Scientists continue to search for effective eradication solutions to this "ecological nightmare."
The document provides an overview of the respiratory system including what it includes, how it works, why we need it, common diseases and illnesses, and ways to protect the respiratory system. The respiratory system includes the lungs, airways, diaphragm, windpipe, throat, mouth, and nasal passages. It works by bringing air into the lungs through the nose and mouth, distributing it through the bronchi and into the blood, and then removing carbon dioxide through exhalation. We need the respiratory system to provide oxygen to all our cells. Common respiratory illnesses include asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Ways to protect the respiratory system include not smoking, avoiding air pollution, and regular exercise.
This document appears to be a photo album created by Jan documenting her walks with her dog Monty in Ottawa, Canada throughout 2014. Each month from January to December is marked with photos and captions except for August where one of the photos was mistakenly of a trip to New York City instead of Ottawa. The album ends wishing the viewer blessings for 2015.
Presentación de candidatas del colegio topolobampojesussgastelum05
El documento describe la presentación de candidatas del colegio Topolobampo escrito por Jesús Gastelum el 16 de junio de 2011, incluyendo 11 páginas sobre el evento.
Create Strong and Memorable Passwords: 4 Simple StepsJan Yuill
This document provides a 4-step process for creating strong and memorable passwords. Step 1 is to create a memorable base password using a true statement. Step 2 is to modify the base password by replacing letters with symbols and numbers. Step 3 is to add identifiers to the password for each individual account. Step 4 is to further strengthen the password by adding the year and month to indicate when it will be changed. Following these steps creates passwords that are both secure and easy to remember.
Dokumen ini membahas tentang konduktor dan penebat. Konduktor adalah bahan yang dapat mengalirkan arus listrik seperti logam dan emas, sedangkan penebat tidak dapat mengalirkan arus listrik seperti kaca, plastik, dan kayu. Kemudian diberikan contoh bahan-bahan yang termasuk konduktor dan penebat.
This document provides an overview of urban chicken keeping, including reasons to keep chickens, legal considerations, caring for baby chicks, building a coop, and maintaining a healthy flock. Key points covered include that chickens require little space but can cultivate gardens and provide eggs; local ordinances typically allow up to three chickens; and proper housing, feeding, and hygiene are necessary for raising chickens in an urban setting.
This document provides information and guidance for keeping chickens in an urban setting. It discusses why chickens make good pets for cities and outlines ordinances related to their keeping. The document then gives instructions for caring for baby chicks, including building a brooder and coop. It provides feeding guidelines at different stages from chick to laying hen. Key requirements are proper housing, food, and protection from predators for urban chickens.
The document provides information on keeping backyard chickens, including their needs, housing options, and care requirements. It discusses that chickens require a safe coop, proper food and water, and about as much space as a cat. It then reviews various coop and housing designs that can be purchased, built, or adapted from other structures like playhouses or dog houses.
This document provides information and guidelines for keeping chickens in an urban setting. It discusses the benefits of keeping chickens, common chicken breeds, housing chickens of different ages, feeding chickens, and maintaining a healthy chicken coop. The document emphasizes that chickens require proper housing, food, and protection from predators to thrive in an urban backyard setting.
This document provides guidance on caring for ducklings in captivity, including species identification, initial rescue, housing, feeding, and release. It outlines that ducklings of local species like Pacific Black Duck and Australian Wood Duck require a heat source, private hiding areas, and varied diet of foods like bread, weeds, and duck starter crumble. It stresses the importance of minimal human handling and releasing ducklings when fully feathered in safe areas with other ducks after banding.
This story is about Farm Animals. I made this story for a project.
If you read this story,the first thing is about egg layer Chickens.
Next goats. Did you know that egg layer Chickens lay about 250 to 300 eggs per year.
Raising pastured poultry provides meat for families and additional income through local sales. Chicks are bought and raised for 3 weeks indoors before moving to rotated grazing areas. Broilers are harvested at 8-14 weeks when they weigh 6-10 pounds. Facilities include movable pens that are easily relocated daily. Finding processing facilities can be challenging but mobile units have helped address this issue for small farms. Daily management is required to maintain good health and prevent common diseases through clean housing and a balanced diet.
Ferrets were first domesticated around 2,500 years ago by Egyptians and have since been used for rodent control and as companion pets. Today, ferrets make popular house pets due to their small size, easy care, and entertaining personalities. While some myths exist such as claims of odor or wildness, ferrets can be trained and with proper care have minimal smell. Ferret ownership requires commitment as they require specialized food, veterinary care, and do best living with other ferrets.
This document provides information about several common farm animals: cows, pigs, ducks, horses, sheep, and chickens. It includes 2-3 facts about each animal, such as cows producing milk and eating 40 pounds of food per day, pigs coming in different colors and using their snouts to smell, and chickens laying eggs and keeping them warm by sitting on them. The document concludes by asking students to share facts about their favorite farm animal with a classmate and draw a picture of that animal.
Ducks make good pets but require some care and consideration. They are social animals that should be kept in groups of at least two. Different breeds are suited for meat, eggs, or as pets. Proper housing, food, water access, and health monitoring are important to keep ducks happy and healthy as domestic pets. The document provides information on duck breeds, housing, health, food, and care considerations for those interested in keeping ducks.
Rabbits come in 43 recognized breeds by the ARBA. Some common breeds include New Zealand Whites, used for meat production, Florida Whites which are smaller, and Himalayans which originated from mountain regions. Rabbits are also bred for fiber like Angoras or as pets like Lionheads. Domestic rabbits were first bred by French monasteries in the 1500s. Today China has over 500 million rabbits, mostly farmed for meat. Rabbits can be profitable to raise on small farms for their rapid reproduction rate and efficient feed conversion. Some challenges are lack of processing infrastructure and that they are seen as cute pets by some.
This document provides an overview of rabbit production. It discusses the types of rabbits used for meat production, their housing and feeding needs, and basic reproduction. Rabbits can provide meat and wool. While not widely consumed in the US, rabbit meat production has benefits as a small-scale livestock option. The document outlines management practices and some common health issues to consider in rabbitry.
Would you like to adopt a chick, saving her from the slaughter house and free her roam free again?
Or would you prefer the bring the cute and adorable chick home to charm your family and children, and perhaps provide some egg breakfast for the family when she grew up?
Save a Chick today, Stop the Slaughter and inhumane confinement!
The document provides a summary of daily pet news stories from April 27, 2011, including Michael Vick speaking out against a dog fighting app, a study finding that female dogs notice size changes in objects better than male dogs, two red-tailed hawks waiting for their eggs to hatch with a live webcam, chemicals in pet dogs' blood linked to chemicals in older furniture, and a pet adoption event breaking records.
Goats are one of the oldest species of domesticated animals. There are nine species generally accepted as true goats with around three hundred breeds. Many small farmers or backyard raisers have found that they can earn from raising goats. Goats provide milk, meat, fibre,and hide which raisers can sell or use for themselves. If you are willing enough to try raising goats, you can start by raising one to two goats. Goat-raising is not easy but if you also willing to learn more about them, you can confidently raise goats either as pets or as livestock. This quick-start guide will give you basic information about goats and goat-raising.
Goats are herbivores. They fall under the genus Capra. What we know as the domestic goat is a subspecies of the family Bovidae. Goats are closely related to the sheep so that both animals will often exhibit similar traits. If you are serious about raising goats, you should start to memorize terms related to this venture. A female goat is called a “nanny” or “doe” and a young female is called a “doeling”. A mother goat is
referred to as a dam. A male goat is called a “buck” or “billy” and those that have been castrated are “wethers”. A goat offspring is called a “kid”.In Middle Eastern and Asian countries, goats are kept for agricultural purposes or sometimes as pets. In the US, goat-raising is finding its way
to become a fast growing industry.
The document provides an overview of the respiratory system including what it includes, how it works, why we need it, common diseases and illnesses, and ways to protect the respiratory system. The respiratory system includes the lungs, airways, diaphragm, windpipe, throat, mouth, and nasal passages. It works by bringing air into the lungs through the nose and mouth, distributing it through the bronchi and into the blood, and then removing carbon dioxide through exhalation. We need the respiratory system to provide oxygen to all our cells. Common respiratory illnesses include asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Ways to protect the respiratory system include not smoking, avoiding air pollution, and regular exercise.
This document appears to be a photo album created by Jan documenting her walks with her dog Monty in Ottawa, Canada throughout 2014. Each month from January to December is marked with photos and captions except for August where one of the photos was mistakenly of a trip to New York City instead of Ottawa. The album ends wishing the viewer blessings for 2015.
Presentación de candidatas del colegio topolobampojesussgastelum05
El documento describe la presentación de candidatas del colegio Topolobampo escrito por Jesús Gastelum el 16 de junio de 2011, incluyendo 11 páginas sobre el evento.
Create Strong and Memorable Passwords: 4 Simple StepsJan Yuill
This document provides a 4-step process for creating strong and memorable passwords. Step 1 is to create a memorable base password using a true statement. Step 2 is to modify the base password by replacing letters with symbols and numbers. Step 3 is to add identifiers to the password for each individual account. Step 4 is to further strengthen the password by adding the year and month to indicate when it will be changed. Following these steps creates passwords that are both secure and easy to remember.
Dokumen ini membahas tentang konduktor dan penebat. Konduktor adalah bahan yang dapat mengalirkan arus listrik seperti logam dan emas, sedangkan penebat tidak dapat mengalirkan arus listrik seperti kaca, plastik, dan kayu. Kemudian diberikan contoh bahan-bahan yang termasuk konduktor dan penebat.
This document provides an overview of urban chicken keeping, including reasons to keep chickens, legal considerations, caring for baby chicks, building a coop, and maintaining a healthy flock. Key points covered include that chickens require little space but can cultivate gardens and provide eggs; local ordinances typically allow up to three chickens; and proper housing, feeding, and hygiene are necessary for raising chickens in an urban setting.
This document provides information and guidance for keeping chickens in an urban setting. It discusses why chickens make good pets for cities and outlines ordinances related to their keeping. The document then gives instructions for caring for baby chicks, including building a brooder and coop. It provides feeding guidelines at different stages from chick to laying hen. Key requirements are proper housing, food, and protection from predators for urban chickens.
The document provides information on keeping backyard chickens, including their needs, housing options, and care requirements. It discusses that chickens require a safe coop, proper food and water, and about as much space as a cat. It then reviews various coop and housing designs that can be purchased, built, or adapted from other structures like playhouses or dog houses.
This document provides information and guidelines for keeping chickens in an urban setting. It discusses the benefits of keeping chickens, common chicken breeds, housing chickens of different ages, feeding chickens, and maintaining a healthy chicken coop. The document emphasizes that chickens require proper housing, food, and protection from predators to thrive in an urban backyard setting.
This document provides guidance on caring for ducklings in captivity, including species identification, initial rescue, housing, feeding, and release. It outlines that ducklings of local species like Pacific Black Duck and Australian Wood Duck require a heat source, private hiding areas, and varied diet of foods like bread, weeds, and duck starter crumble. It stresses the importance of minimal human handling and releasing ducklings when fully feathered in safe areas with other ducks after banding.
This story is about Farm Animals. I made this story for a project.
If you read this story,the first thing is about egg layer Chickens.
Next goats. Did you know that egg layer Chickens lay about 250 to 300 eggs per year.
Raising pastured poultry provides meat for families and additional income through local sales. Chicks are bought and raised for 3 weeks indoors before moving to rotated grazing areas. Broilers are harvested at 8-14 weeks when they weigh 6-10 pounds. Facilities include movable pens that are easily relocated daily. Finding processing facilities can be challenging but mobile units have helped address this issue for small farms. Daily management is required to maintain good health and prevent common diseases through clean housing and a balanced diet.
Ferrets were first domesticated around 2,500 years ago by Egyptians and have since been used for rodent control and as companion pets. Today, ferrets make popular house pets due to their small size, easy care, and entertaining personalities. While some myths exist such as claims of odor or wildness, ferrets can be trained and with proper care have minimal smell. Ferret ownership requires commitment as they require specialized food, veterinary care, and do best living with other ferrets.
This document provides information about several common farm animals: cows, pigs, ducks, horses, sheep, and chickens. It includes 2-3 facts about each animal, such as cows producing milk and eating 40 pounds of food per day, pigs coming in different colors and using their snouts to smell, and chickens laying eggs and keeping them warm by sitting on them. The document concludes by asking students to share facts about their favorite farm animal with a classmate and draw a picture of that animal.
Ducks make good pets but require some care and consideration. They are social animals that should be kept in groups of at least two. Different breeds are suited for meat, eggs, or as pets. Proper housing, food, water access, and health monitoring are important to keep ducks happy and healthy as domestic pets. The document provides information on duck breeds, housing, health, food, and care considerations for those interested in keeping ducks.
Rabbits come in 43 recognized breeds by the ARBA. Some common breeds include New Zealand Whites, used for meat production, Florida Whites which are smaller, and Himalayans which originated from mountain regions. Rabbits are also bred for fiber like Angoras or as pets like Lionheads. Domestic rabbits were first bred by French monasteries in the 1500s. Today China has over 500 million rabbits, mostly farmed for meat. Rabbits can be profitable to raise on small farms for their rapid reproduction rate and efficient feed conversion. Some challenges are lack of processing infrastructure and that they are seen as cute pets by some.
This document provides an overview of rabbit production. It discusses the types of rabbits used for meat production, their housing and feeding needs, and basic reproduction. Rabbits can provide meat and wool. While not widely consumed in the US, rabbit meat production has benefits as a small-scale livestock option. The document outlines management practices and some common health issues to consider in rabbitry.
Would you like to adopt a chick, saving her from the slaughter house and free her roam free again?
Or would you prefer the bring the cute and adorable chick home to charm your family and children, and perhaps provide some egg breakfast for the family when she grew up?
Save a Chick today, Stop the Slaughter and inhumane confinement!
The document provides a summary of daily pet news stories from April 27, 2011, including Michael Vick speaking out against a dog fighting app, a study finding that female dogs notice size changes in objects better than male dogs, two red-tailed hawks waiting for their eggs to hatch with a live webcam, chemicals in pet dogs' blood linked to chemicals in older furniture, and a pet adoption event breaking records.
Goats are one of the oldest species of domesticated animals. There are nine species generally accepted as true goats with around three hundred breeds. Many small farmers or backyard raisers have found that they can earn from raising goats. Goats provide milk, meat, fibre,and hide which raisers can sell or use for themselves. If you are willing enough to try raising goats, you can start by raising one to two goats. Goat-raising is not easy but if you also willing to learn more about them, you can confidently raise goats either as pets or as livestock. This quick-start guide will give you basic information about goats and goat-raising.
Goats are herbivores. They fall under the genus Capra. What we know as the domestic goat is a subspecies of the family Bovidae. Goats are closely related to the sheep so that both animals will often exhibit similar traits. If you are serious about raising goats, you should start to memorize terms related to this venture. A female goat is called a “nanny” or “doe” and a young female is called a “doeling”. A mother goat is
referred to as a dam. A male goat is called a “buck” or “billy” and those that have been castrated are “wethers”. A goat offspring is called a “kid”.In Middle Eastern and Asian countries, goats are kept for agricultural purposes or sometimes as pets. In the US, goat-raising is finding its way
to become a fast growing industry.
The document provides information on the chicken industry and egg production. It discusses:
1) The domestication of chickens beginning around 3200 BC initially for cockfighting, and the modern egg industry's consolidation into a few large producers.
2) The breeding and genetics of egg-laying chickens, including the dominance of the White Leghorn breed.
3) The stages of commercial egg production from breeding to hatcheries, pullet rearing, layer housing, and egg collection and distribution.
4) Issues facing the industry like animal welfare concerns regarding cage housing and alternatives like cage-free and pasture systems.
This document is about albatross and contains sections on their greetings, predators of albatross chicks, methods used to deal with predators, how mothers find and save food for their babies, the albatross egg laying and hatching process, a photo page, and concluding sections saying goodbye.
This document provides information about chickens through a series of slides. It describes a chicken's physical features like its comb, beak, wings and feet. It notes that chickens belong to the bird family and are the most popular bird in the world. It explains that hens are female chickens and roosters are male. Chickens start as eggs and hatch after 21 days. Chickens live on land, often in coops, and can live 5-10 years. They prefer to eat corn unlike other birds.
The Black Capped Chickadee is a small bird that weighs about 4 ounces and measures 5-6 inches tall. It has a grey tail, white cheeks, a black bib and cap, and grey legs and feet. It builds its nest in tree cavities or birdhouses, using sticks, hair, and its own feathers. It lives in parts of the western and central United States, eating insects, berries, and seeds several times a day. Black Capped Chickadees typically live 1-5 years and have 1-9 chicks per year, with the parents caring for the young.
This document provides a guide for those interested in starting a backyard chicken flock for eggs or meat. It outlines important considerations like zoning restrictions, preparing the yard with adequate fencing and housing, purchasing chicks or adult birds, feeding and caring for the flock, and maintaining health. Key responsibilities include giving daily care, preventing disease through biosecurity measures, and understanding the long-term commitment of raising poultry. With proper planning and care, a backyard flock can be a rewarding experience for the family.
2. Chickens are Carnivores
Chickens Are
Cute Little Carnivores
Joyce Hansen, better known as the Chicken Lady in Mena Arkansas, has a special sale on
every year in the week of Good Friday.
Baby chicks, still wet and fresh from the egg, are sprayed with food coloring in various
colors. Then they are delivered to Joyce at Parks & Hansen, Inc. -- the feed, seed and
fertilizer store on Fourth and Gillham.
Some are red, some are green
and all of them are fuzzy, wuzzy cute.
People just reach into the box and pluck out a chick with the color they want.
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The colors wear off gradually over a period of three or four weeks, fascinating one and all
with their splendorous colors.
"The food coloring doesn't hurt them a bit," says Joyce.
"One of my granddaughters has kept a rooster for three years now. She says he's just about
ready to decorate the family crock pot."
One reason baby chicks are so fascinating
is that they are so obviously,
BIRDS
but you don't even need
to put salt on their tails to catch them.
Capitalizing on America's love affair with babies of any kind, these cute, cuddly little birds
go "Cheep, Cheep, Cheep" all day long. They are easily caught and fit right into a child's
small hand for closer scrutiny. Line that tender palm with millet and crunched corn and the
little chick can keep the child fascinated for weeks on end.
It is easy to make a pet of a baby chick.
With any encouragement at all, the little bird will follow a child -- indoors, and out. It will
climb up into the child's lap, peer earnestly into the face, and express eternal friendship in
fifty different ways. Chickens love to be stroked and petted, responding in songs more
pleasing to the human ear than a cat's perfectly boring purr.
Within two weeks of hatching, these little birds can take flights of a foot or more.
Grown chickens in good practice and strong health can actually soar to heights of twelve feet
when driven by panic, and they are not terrified of gliding down from housetops or tall tree
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limbs. Yet, give them any other opportunity of escape and these little birds will run; flight is
their last resort.
Baby chicks don't need a mother to fend for them; though they obviously fare better when a
loving mother is there.
While chickens are notorious for being cowards, don't test that theory out when a mother hen
is protecting her brood. The largest bully in your class will wisely decide to flee the wrath of
a mother hen. Even big black bears have been known to turn tail and run when a mother hen
gets on their case.
Roosters are known to be aggressive too.
Equipped with spurs up to four inches long, they can leave deep scars on the toughest
complexions. When aroused by fury or protective instincts, roosters and mother hens will
light on a child's head, pecking and spurring for as long as they can find a hair left to hang
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onto. Even grown boys will scream for Mama to come save them when the chickens are in
top form.
Ah, but then you see,
Chickens are Cute little Carnivores.
That's right. You can raise chickens on the sweetest corn and the most wholesome grain from
day 1.
BUT THEN, if you turn those same cheeping little chicks loose on the world they will leave
the corn behind and go to chasing chiggers. They will scratch and dig anywhere chiggers are
likely to be found, chugging down all the grubs and anything else that moves which they find
along the way.
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Chickens are birds.
Birds were created with a metabolism starving rather constantly for nourishment. For every
ounce they weigh birds will need to eat up to one ounce of food just to maintain their weight.
Baby chicks want to GAIN weight, so they eat more than their share of an ounce.
Country estates can spend far less on exterminators (and fertilize) by employing chickens to
tend their landscape. Chickens love to chomp down on:
1. grasshoppers,
2. moths,
3. caterpillars,
4. flies,
5. and even carpenter ants.
Given any kind of a chance they will terrorize the entire neighborhood of lesser critters,
chomping on anything bigger than a newborn baby gnat.
Why, if cats and dogs would just hold still long enough, chickens would eat the ticks off of
them and completely dissolve the need for flea collars.
Please note: You are INVITED to make copies of this file and GIVE it to all
your friends, neighbors, and customers. Even your cousins can have a copy, if
they have been nice lately. All I ask is that you don't make any changes to the
book; I have changed it enough already.
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Smart farm wives capitalize on this attribute by using square wire which lets only the little
chicks into a garden plot. As the chicks chase down chiggers to crunch on, they will keep the
ground constantly cultivated, and clean of creeping pests too. On top of all that they will lay
down a residue of easily absorbed, top grade fertilize yon smart housewife's tender young
plants will thrive on.
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Chickens are so popular there's even a town named CHICKEN.
Why Do They Call it "Chicken?"
In the late 1800's, early miners traveled far in search of gold. Food was sometimes scarce, but
a particular area near the South Fork of the 40-Mile River was abundant in Ptarmigan, now
the state bird which bears a resemblance to a chicken (Ah the foreshadowing is thicker than steel.)
The miners kept themselves alive with the help of the Ptarmigan (if you consider being eaten
as helping.)
In 1902, Chicken was to become incorporated, the second town in Alaska to do so. The name
"Ptarmigan" was suggested. Many people liked the name, but felt the quotation marks were
too presumptuous. Therefore, the name was shortened to Ptarmigan.
The only problem was that nobody could agree on the correct spelling of that wholesome
bird. Of course they didn't want their town name to be the source of ridicule and laughter, so
they compromised on the name "Chicken." (The irony is thicker than the foreshadowing.)
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The best news of all about chickens is that they are homebound. They don't need to be caged
when food is plentiful and protection from thieving coyotes is adequate. As long as they
know where home is, chickens will roam no farther than necessary to fill their little craws
with nourishing foods.
Build a roost for them and chickens will almost never range too
far to hear table scraps being raked off the plate into the yard.
Potato peelings, fried okra, biscuits, even spinach,
Anything people eat, chickens will chomp on.
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That makes them better garbage disposal units
than anything you can buy in a store.
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This is a White, Black-Tailed Japanese Bantam owned by Daniel Wade Phone 479 394 4723.
He has enough color to make a peacock blush.
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Remember, there are more chickens
in the United States than there are people.
What would happen if Chickens were allowed to vote?
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One of the best suppliers of chickens that I know is Estes Hatchery. It has been in the poultry
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Below are some close-up shots of their favorite breeds, including: Production Reds * Rhode
Island Reds * New Hampshire * Reds Barred Plymouth Rocks * White Plymouth Rocks *
Black Australorps * Buff Orpingtons * Silver Laced Wyandottes * Araucanas * Danish
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Brown Leghorns * Hybrid White Leghorns * California Whites * Crested Polish Specials *
and the little Bantam Specials.
Guineas, game birds and other specialties are also available.
For even more pictures and more breeds,
Visit the Oklahoma State University web site.
Since chickens arrive in various natural colors and sizes they can be chosen to compliment
the Farm House decor. White chickens will match homes painted white, Rhode Island Reds
will enhance brick mansions.
the end.
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