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What Do Chickens Eat ?

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The Chicken and other poultry love to eat blueberries, grapes, mealworms, applesauce, yogurt, watermelon. The chickens enjoy all kind of insects including roaches and scorpions. They also love to eat green leafy lettuce, zucchini, apple, cooked pumpkin, cottage cheese, spaghetti, cooked squash, tomatoes, Kale, Carrots, Cucumbers, Clelery and other fruits and vegetables. If you are raising chickens in a free range environment it is really important to make sure your chickens have a balanced diet that contains all of the essential nutrients and vitamins. These fruits and vegetables will help to keep chickens and other poultry to stay healthy, continuing to lay eggs and meat.

Can chickens eat watermelon? II Use of watermelon in Broiler Poultry

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Can chickens eat watermelon?   Chicks, chicken & other poultry can consume watermelon including its the flesh, rinds, seeds and leaves. Watermelon made up of over 90% water, so  it is a great source of hydration for your poultry birds (layer & broilers). In summers the chicks, chicken & other poultry need more water intake to prevent heat stroke due to their aggressive body temperature. So if you will  use regularly watermelon for yours chicken in summers, it  will  help  the chicks  to maintain their body temperature cool down. Watermelon does not prevent from dehydration, its also a great source of  vitamins including  Sunny Poultry                                                 Vitamin A and Vitamin C.  Watermelon  also contains potassium and fiber. So watermelon is a great source of water, nutrients & vitamins which plays a crucial role in over all growth of poultry. When  the baby  chicks are packed in the boxes in hatcheries, there are some cut  pieces o

Chances of Risk or loss in broiler chicken farming

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If you are doing any kind of business, there will be definitely  chances of loss and risk  in each and every business. So broiler poultry (meat  chicken) is also that kind of start up/business where are also chances of loss. There are maximum  7 batches  in chicken (meat) farming which can be annually raised. But some of these batches can give you a good profit where some  can create the situation of facing loss. The following are the factors which are responsible for economical crisis   in chicken coop and other Poultry.  1. Fluctuation in Chicken whole Sale Rate Alive broiler chicken rate does not remain permanently fix. Sometimes it raised down to their lowest                                                         price. And as a result of it farmers has to face a lot of loss. 2. Viral outbreak in chicken farming  There are  chances of viral outbreak like bird flu  in chickens, when it happens  in any country,  then the rate of chicken (meat) decreases abruptly  because v

Vent Gleet, infected cloaca, dirty pasty butt in chicks, chickens & other poultry

What is Vent Gleet? Vent Gleet also known as infected cloaca, dirty pasty butt in chicks, chicken & other poultry is inflammation of the their cloaca. Vent gleet is not an illness but it badly effects on the chicken's digestive system. In Poultry Vent Gleet you will notice there will be the collection of white droppings on the chicken's dropping point. What are the causes of Vent Gleet? 1. PH imbalance  If your chicken's body is too acidic or alkaline, it can make them more susceptible to vent gleet in  yours poultry. 2. Fungal infection. 3. Bacterial infections. Symptoms of Vent Gleet, Cloaca, pasty butt 1. Pasted feathers around the vent 2. Diarrhea with whitish & smelling discharge from vent. 3. Weight loss. Treatment Vent Gleet, Cloaca, pasty butt 1. Use fresh drinking water daily Provide yours broiler poultry fresh drinking water which will help them to strong their immune system. 2. Use Probiotics. You should use the probiotics for yours

How to Keep Snakes out of Your Chicken Coop ll Easy ways to keep snakes out of the poultry house

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Snakes are deadly predators of chicks, chickens and other poultry. They can kill and eat live chickens and theirs eggs. So snake as a predator of poultry can create economical loss because you can lose yours chicken and their eggs. So you should have to do following arrangement in your chicken house to keep snakes out of yours chicken coop. Sunny Poultry                                                 Donot Spread Feed wastage around Chicken Coop If you really want to prohibted the attack of snakes on poultry birds, then you should donot spread out their feed, because snakes love their feed. Regularly Collection of Eggs Snakes also very attractive towards the eggs of birds, because they can easily find them near chicken coop. So prevent chicks and their eggs from snakes for snakes, you should remain always collect the eggs of poultry. Get rid of Mouses & Mice Snake around your chicken coop always looking for rats to eat. So treat the mouses, because in th

Is poultry farming profitable ll Poultry Earning

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Is poultry farming a profitable business? There are basically two type of poultry birds i.e broilers and layers. Broiler are raised for meat and layers are raised for eggs. There are maximum 7 batches which can be gained annually by doing broiler chicken (meat)  farming. Where layer hens are used to the production of eggs. If i compare the broilers with layers in view of profit, then there are more chances  of profit with broilers (meat farming). Where while doing Sunny Poultry  layer farming the chances of  profit  are  also  bright but you need to maintain patient because layers starts egging after at least six month of  their birth. Moreover Eggs prices donot fall down at their worst position, where other side broiler  chicken price can fall down at their worst  position, which  further be  a cause  of huge  loss in  broiler chicken (meat)  farming.

How to analysis the estimate cost of 1000 broilers chicken ll estimate the cost to raise / grow up the broiler baby chicks

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Estimate to Calculate the Production cost for 1000 Broiler Chickens Birds by Sunny Poultry There are lot of factors which are responsible for determination  the production cost of broiler poultry. In this article we will do just calculate the production cost of  1000 broiler baby  chicken to grow up till market. In modern days the life of broilers left only 30-35 days due to advancements in the quality of broiler poultry feed. So here we doing  estimate production cost of broiler chicken to raise them from baby chicks to grower (Marketin). The construction cost of chicken house (1200 sequare feet area), installations of equipment and accessories has not been included in this estimate. 1.  Broiler Feed :- It is the most important factor when you are preparing the estimating cost of the of broilers, because you should have to spend almost 65% amount of the total investment on only their (broilers chicken ) feed, so here you can guess what's broiler feed consumption and h