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2. How to Raise Chickens: An Easy-to-Follow Guide for Beginners

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   Nesting Box Hens crave privacy and darkness when laying eggs, so plan for at least one nesting box for every four or five hens. A box that measures 14"W-by-14"H x 12"D will give even a big gal ...

3. Best Pet Chicken Breeds for Beginners (& Those to Avoid) - AOL

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   Now, on to pet chickens who aren’t quite so good for beginners. First up are Leghorns.They're good egg layers, but they're pretty high-strung and quite flighty.

4. 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 ...

5. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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   A dual-purpose chicken is a type of chicken that may be used in the production of both eggs and meat. [42] In the past, many chicken breeds were selected for both functions. However, since the advent of laying and meat hybrids, industrial chicken breeding has made a sharp distinction between chickens with either function, [ 43 ] so that certain ...

6. 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]

7. Golden Comet - Wikipedia

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   Therefore they have a short production lifespan. The Golden Comet chickens are frequently adopted by the public as rescue hens once they have completed their initial two years in commercial production. [2] Younger pullets initially lay slightly smaller eggs, but the eggs tend to increase in size over the next few weeks as they mature. [9]