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2. Poultry feed - Wikipedia

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   A feeder is the device that supplies the feed to the poultry. [8] For privately raised chickens, or chickens as pets , feed can be delivered through jar, trough or tube feeders. The use of poultry feed can also be supplemented with food found through foraging . [ 9 ]

3. Feeder (livestock equipment) - Wikipedia

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   A feeder, is a feed holder, such as fixed holder or trailer-mounted hopper, delivering feed or fodder to cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock. [1] See also

4. Blinders (poultry) - Wikipedia

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   In pheasants, fitting blinders causes an increase in head shaking and scratching, and increases in damage to the beak and nostrils of the bird. [2] Fitting pin-less blinders to laying hens leads to reduced activity, increased resting, adjustment problems in feeding, stereotypic head shaking and protracted displacement neck preening for a month ...

5. 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. [8]

6. Chicken wire - Wikipedia

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   Chicken wire, or poultry netting, is a mesh of wire commonly used to fence in fowl, such as chickens, in a run or coop. It is made of thin, flexible, galvanized steel wire with hexagonal gaps. Available in 1 ⁄ 2 inch (about 1.3 cm), 1 inch (about 2.5 cm) diameter, and 2 inch (about 5 cm), chicken wire is available in various gauges —usually ...

7. Auto-sexing - Wikipedia

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   Auto-sexing breeds of poultry are those in which the sex of newly-hatched chicks can be determined from the colour and markings of the down. Some breeds of chicken , [ 1 ] : 53 of goose and of domestic pigeon have this characteristic. [ 2 ]