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Top 10 Chicken Breeds for Colorful Egg Production

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This breed is very popular among backyard poultry enthusiasts and breeders. The Easter Egger also makes an excellent forager, so if you want to let your flock free range and scratch around for their own food in the yard, this breed will likely do well at it. They are known to be predator-savvy and are excellent foragers.

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Do chickens deserve better?

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About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. There are at least 1,000 intensive poultry units throughout the UK.

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Top 6 Tips to Raise Healthy Layer Chickens

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ounces of water each day depending on if they are foraging or confined. Mortality rates for layers in a normal poultry farm can be in the 1-5% range. For instance, if you have free-range chickens you face different challenges than those who are managing chickens in confinement. So, keeping clean water is important.