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2. Poultry farming in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The old hens also have little commercial value. Thus, the main sources of poultry meat a hundred years ago (spring chickens and stewing hens) have both been entirely supplanted by meat-type broiler chickens. Traditionally, chicken production was distributed across the entire agricultural sector.

3. Rent a Coop - Wikipedia

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   RentACoop is a Maryland-based international business that designs, manufactures, and sells proprietary products for backyard chickens and chickens as pets. Additionally, the Company provides chicken coop rentals in the Washington, D.C., and New York City Metro regions. [1] The company was founded in Potomac, Maryland, United States.

4. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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   There is a long-standing controversy over the basic need for a chicken coop. One philosophy, known as the "fresh air school", holds that chickens are mostly hardy but can be brought low by confinement, poor air quality and darkness, hence the need for a highly ventilated or open-sided coop with conditions more like the outdoors, even in winter ...

5. Thriving Regional Chicken Chain Plans to Open More Than 1,200 ...

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   Slim Chickens / FacebookIf you don't currently know the name "Slim Chickens," don't be too surprised if that changes very soon.The thriving chicken chain—known for its tenders, wings, sandwiches ...

6. Chicken tractor - Wikipedia

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   A home-built chicken tractor, without wheels, built to house a small number of hens. A chicken tractor (sometimes called an ark) is a movable chicken coop lacking a floor. Chicken tractors may also house other kinds of poultry. Most chicken tractors are a lightly built A-frame which one person can drag about the yard. It may have wheels on one ...

7. Urban chicken keeping - Wikipedia

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   Urban keeping of chickens as pets, for eggs, meat, or for eating pests is popular in urban and suburban areas.Some people sell the eggs for side income.. Keeping chickens in an urban environment is a type of urban agriculture, important in the local food movement, which is the growing practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in or around a village, town or city. [1]

8. Battery cage - Wikipedia

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   Chickens in multiple-occupancy battery cages. Battery cages are a housing system used by factory farms for various animal production methods, but primarily for egg-laying hens. The name arises from the arrangement of rows and columns of identical cages connected, in a unit, as in an artillery battery. Although the term is usually applied to ...

9. Free-range eggs - Wikipedia

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   Based on data in the European Commission's socio-economic report published in 2004, [23] (prior to battery cages being banned in the EU) it cost €0.66 to produce 12 battery eggs, €0.82 to produce 12 barn eggs and €0.98 to produce 12 free-range eggs. This means that in 2004, one free-range egg cost 2.6 cents more to produce than a battery ...