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2. 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 ...

3. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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   The dual-purpose chicken selected by the Lohmann group, the “Lohmann Dual”, [50] is raised in Switzerland by a few breeders, and the Coop network decided to launch the experiment with a test on 5,000 poultry, although knowing that instead of producing up to 300 eggs per year like very good laying hens, it will only produce around 250 eggs ...

4. Poultry farming in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The culling and slaughter of non-egg laying chickens created a source of poultry meat. However, poultry meat supply continued to lag demand, and poultry was expensive. Prior to about 1910, chicken was served primarily on special occasions or Sunday dinner.

5. List of chicken breeds - Wikipedia

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   All chickens lay eggs, have edible meat, and possess a unique appearance. However, distinct breeds are the result of selective breeding to emphasize certain traits. Any breed may be used for general agricultural purposes, and all breeds are shown to some degree. But each chicken breed is known for a primary use.

6. Pitman Farms, maker of ‘humane’ Mary’s Chicken brand, among ...

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   Cal/OSHA also investigated Pitman in 2018, after 62-year-old Lowell Beecher, a truck driver employed by feed manufacturing company JD Heiskell, was crushed by a Pitman tractor that was moving ...

7. Mini farm animals are adorable. There's also a growing ... - AOL

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   Animal breeders say sales of pint-sized farm animals have grown since the COVID-19 pandemic, when more people started raising backyard chickens for fun and fresh eggs. Like chickens, mini farm ...

8. Pastured poultry - Wikipedia

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   A free range pastured chicken system. Pastured poultry also known as pasture-raised poultry or pasture raised eggs is a sustainable agriculture technique that calls for the raising of laying chickens, meat chickens (broilers), guinea fowl, and/or turkeys on pasture, as opposed to indoor confinement like in battery cage hens or in some cage-free and 'free range' setups with limited "access ...

9. 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 ...