Posts Tagged ‘scale poultry’

Poultry Housing – The Basic Requirements to Consider

Chicken farming has become a profitable business lately and its good to try it out. One factor to consider before any other is poultry housing. Every poultry production system must provide the most important requirements. Good examples include the following: Safety from weather: Domestic birds must be shielded from the cold, rain, sun and wind. [...]

admin - Consumers shell out for small farm eggs (3/25/2012)

Deborah Kalkowski didn’t get into the egg business on purpose. Kalkowski said her children first talked her into adding chickens about a year ago at their 50-acre Groveland farm, Red Tail Ranch, where they already kept horses. They built a coop for 16 chickens, which helped keep the bug population under control and provided fresh [...]

admin - Indonesia remains global bird flu ‘hot spot’ (1/6/2012)

The number of bird flu infections has declined over the past few years, but Indonesia remains the virus’ “hot spot”, as backyard poultry farms remain the backbone in supplying meat for the population, a senior health official says. Rita Kusriastuti, director of animal-borne infectious disease control at the Health Ministry, said on Thursday that low [...]

admin - Whether for bucks or just for ‘clucks,’ small-scale poultry operations promise rewards (7/24/2011)

BRYAN — Want a few fresh-from-the-chicken eggs for your daily breakfast? Or maybe you like the idea of raising a couple of thousand chickens as a profitable business for local niche markets? For those interested in these scenarios and anything in between, the Texas AgriLife Extension Service will be holding a small-scale poultry production workshop [...]

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