Month: April 2022

Chicken processing generally contains two stages including primary processing and deep processing. Primary processing refers to that chicken are slaughtered, plucked, cleaned, cooled and either filleted, cut into pieces or left ’whole’. Then this processed meat is frozen, packaged, and sent to dealers or for further processing. One source argued that, directions Season wings all … Read more

They may begin laying as early as 16 weeks! The downside of this is that they usually don’t live much longer than three years and production drops off in the second year. Rhode Island Reds, Delawares’ and Barred rocks are also early to lay- usually around 18-20 weeks. While we were reading we ran into … Read more

The most common place your chickens will get parasites is from wild birds. But you could also get mites and lice from mice, rats, raccoons, coyotes, and more. Any local wildlife can bring mites and lice into your yard and cause a mass infestation. Also, how do chickens get mites? One of several instances your … Read more

The most common reason why your chickens have stopped laying is there is something wrong with their diet. To lay eggs, your chickens need plenty of natural daylight- at least 14 hours a day and 16 hours are even better. Some extra ideas to investigate are: broody hens, old age, certain breeds don’t lay as … Read more

They made their chicken wear red eyeglasses! The insight was simple. The sight of red-coloured blood intensified the pecking instinct in chickens. The red eyeglasses tricked the chicken from seeing the red colour of the blood, thus reducing pecking and even cannibalism. These colored the world slightly red, but also disguised the sight of blood, … Read more

The nervous system is essential to body movement — without it, animals with brains could not move. Therefore, when a chicken’s head is cut off but the spinal cord and nervous system is left intact, the chicken can move around. But without a brain, it will soon stop moving, and never move again. Without input … Read more

Like anything with chickens they may be apprehensive with “new” things.. Please, please; keep in mind that eating snow will actually dehydrate you ! It requires more energy/calories to metabolize snow than it gives you. It will not dehydrate you. It is moisture, you just need more volume of it then you would need of … Read more

Spider Jockeys and Chicken Jockeys are very rare in Minecraft. This might explain why each Jockey pairing drops so much XP when killed. For those who don’t know, Chicken Jockeys are when Baby Zombies ride Chickens in Minecraft. They can drop up to 25 XP points when the player kills them. How do you get … Read more

The kidney is the shape and color of a red kidney bean. In a chicken, it is also about the size of a bean. However in addition to the liver and kidney, there is tissue of the a similar color, that is located on either side of the spine. While I was writing we ran … Read more

In general, hens become mature enough to lay eggs around six months of age, though this varies by breed. The first eggs laid may have soft shells or abnormal shapes. Healthy hens are able to lay an egg about once a day, but may occasionally skip a day. Yet another question we ran across in … Read more