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Written by Janssen Animal Health
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 With lengthening day light many chickens, turkeys and geese should be approaching peak egg production. Although egg production is related to age - with 35-45 weeks being the optimum time for chickens - it is also related to day length. Around 12 hours of daylight or more is needed for hens to produce eggs at a production rate of 90% (or 9 eggs in 10 days), depending on the breed. Producing eggs at this rate can be stressful for birds, so it is important they receive good nutrition at this time.
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Read more... [Janssen Poultry Tonic]
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The Pleasure of Rehoming Ex Battery Hens |
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Written by Tim Daniels
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 00:00 |
 Re-homing a few ex battery hens is an incredibly rewarding experience. Battery hens have never been able to express some of their most natural behaviours; like foraging, scratching the ground or nesting to lay their eggs and seeing them able to do this for the first time is certainly very satisfying. After a few months, these poor, scruffy looking hens that you've re-homed will have re-feathered and be on the look out for worms in your back yard. Apart from the satisfaction of giving these girls their freedom, they will without doubt provide you with hours of entertainment as you watch their funny antics, not forgetting a few fresh eggs along the way!
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Read more... [The Pleasure of Rehoming Ex Battery Hens]
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Flubenvet - 60g packs for Worming Chickens |
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Written by Janssen Animal Health
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 13:00 |
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 The backyard poultry market is growing rapidly but many novice poultry owners are unaware of simple preventative health routines that can significantly improve the health and wellbeing of their birds. Until now, there has never been an effective in-feed worming treatment in a pack size appropriate for smaller flocks.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 01 July 2010 05:10 |
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Read more... [Flubenvet - 60g packs for Worming Chickens]
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21st Century Poultry Breeding Book Review |
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21st Century Poultry Breeding (Softback)
by Grant Brereton
Grant Brereton has been breeding poultry for most of his life, starting off with some Light Sussex chickens when he was a child, to more recently, winning the Best Trio at the National with his Partridge Wyandotte Bantams.
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Read more... [21st Century Poultry Breeding Book Review]
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A Cheap Chicken or Duck House |
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Written by Tim Daniels
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 15:53 |
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 The 'cheap' Chicken or Duck house costs about £25 to build, yet they are the most sturdy, well insulated houses I have! Normally my advice to people looking to buy a chicken house is not to buy too cheap since they will end up either having the fox get in to it, or after a few years will be buying again but building this chicken or duck house, if you pardon the pun, goes against the grain. You must be thinking by now that this all seems too good to be true, but there is one key ingredient to this house that keeps the cost down, and that is, the frame underneath it which is a surplus wooden packing crate.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 06 March 2010 19:57 |
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Read more... [A Cheap Chicken or Duck House]
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Changes in Legislation for Flubenvet. |
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Written by Tim Daniels
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Monday, 22 February 2010 17:01 |
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 Most poultry keepers use Flubenvet for worming chickens since this is the only licensed wormer that can be mixed with feed and is effective against all common worms found in poultry, however changes in legislation have been introduced under the Veterinary Medicines Act which means the Flubenvet 2.5% 240g pack most of us like to keep in stock can no longer be sold by vets or merchants unless they have registered as category 8 distributors. These registered distributors can sell to domestic poultry keepers (that have no commercial benefit) but they cannot sell to commercial keepers unless they are also registered with the VMD.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 13:26 |
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Read more... [Changes in Legislation for Flubenvet.]
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Written by Tim Daniels
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:00 |
 The Chocolate Orpington is a relatively new colour of Orpington and currently to my knowledge only exists in bantam size although I'm sure it won't be long before they are crossed into large fowl. The choc gene responsible for the chocolate colour was discovered by the late Dr. Clive Carefoot around 1993-1994. It is a rare Sex-Linked Recessive gene that is basically a dilution of black pigment. This means that out of a pair of genes, the female will be chocolate with just one copy of the gene but the male requires two copies of the choc gene to look chocolate. This also means that black males can look black, but be carrying the chocolate gene.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 25 February 2010 21:15 |
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Read more... [The Chocolate Orpington]
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Self Sufficiency Hen Keeping Book Review |
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Written by Tim Daniels
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Friday, 30 January 2009 00:00 |
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Self Sufficiency Keeping Hens (Softback)
by Mike Hatcher
- Publisher:.New Holland Publishers Ltd
- Edition Published: 25 April 2009
- Softback: 128 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847734200
- ISBN-13: 978-1847734204
- Available from: Amazon
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Self Sufficiency Hen Keeping by Mike Hatcher is one of a number of new books I have seen appear on the shelves recently and I decided it was time to read it and let you know what I thought. More and more people are starting to keep chickens and if that's you, as a beginner, you will find this book contains everything you need to know to get started.
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Read more... [Self Sufficiency Hen Keeping Book Review]
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