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(Technical note: jQuery not found.) I ordered and received 60 Red star hens 9-26-12. My Red Stars are the stars of my coop. We got 33 of these April 2012 and they started laying little pullet eggs at around 16 1/2 weeks and within a month they were laying an egg every day. My Red Stars started laying at exactly 16 weeks old and never slowed down. We ordered Red Stars for the kids to show for 4-H egg layers, and my daughters won Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion, and Grand Champion overall egg layer at our county fair!
My Red Stars turned 18 weeks old today and I had the surprise of an egg. I love my Red Stars. Love these chickens! Wow! Raising Chickens 2.0: No More Coop and Run! The Poultry Page. An on-line zoological garden of domestic poultry, including photos, video and information about various breeds of fowl, such as chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, peafowl, pigeons, and turkeys. Various wildfowl are also included. And by my counter, you're visitor number since January 31, 1999! There were 108,350 visitors between 31 Jan. 1998 and 31 Jan. 1999 and 92,850 visitors in the two previous years (from 31 Jan. 1996 to 31 Jan. 1998). The Poultry Pages were last updated on 18 November 2013 The Poultry Page is brought to you, in large part, by me, with the generous support of Table of Contents below!
If you know what you're looking for, you can search for it here. Table of Contents below Meet the Breeds An oddly annotated tour of poultry varieties follows. "Leroy Brown," my Gold-laced Polish I keep all sorts of fancy and not-so-fancy poultry. This started out as a listing of the birds on my farm, but has evolved into an online poultry encyclopedia. A Note on Graphics Table of Contents Ducks. Chick Care | Stromberg's Chicks & Gamebirds Unlimited | | Chicks and Game Birds from Stromberg's | FEED: Use a commercial chick starter for the first 8 weeks. Cover the floor with several layers of paper towels. Sprinkle the feed on top of the paper towels all around the area where the chicks will be. (Use plenty. Better to waste some than not have enough.) The chicks find the feed more easily this way at the start. WATER: Have a one gallon chick waterer for each 50 chicks.
HEAT: The temperature where the chicks are should be 90 to 95 degrees for the first week. A good source of heat is a 250 watt heat bulb (red bulbs are better than white. LIGHT: If you use a heat bulb, this will also serve as the light you need. SPACE: Try to provide 1/2 square foot per chick. Watch the behavior of the hatchlings. DRAFT SHIELD: Cardboard put in circle about 12 inches high around the chicks helps cut down drafts on the floor. LITTER: Peat moss, shavings, or ground corn cobs make great litter. Increase floor area to 3/4 sq. ft. per chick. SPECIAL lNSTRUCTIONS AFTER THE CHICKS ARRIVE. Keeping & Raising Chickens at Home. Backyard Chickens Forums. Poultry for small farmers: Journey to Forever. There's a lot of good poultry information on the Web, along with some excellent books for small-scale or backyard poultry keepers. (See Poultry resources for small farmers.) Here is some useful information you might not find so easily. First choice for small farms and backyards.
"For really efficient meat production in the tropics we should be looking at Muscovy ducks," says ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization). Not just in the tropics. "We started with a drake and two ducks. Muscovy ducks can lay up to 195 eggs a year over a 40-week season. If you've never eaten Muscovy, you should know that it's really something. Muscovies are unique, the only domestic ducks that aren't derived from mallards.
For the producer they're cheap and troublefree: Muscovies more or less produce themselves. They come in black and white and various shades of grey and brown, with a bright red crest around their eyes and above the beak, like a cockscomb. Start with a drake and three ducks. Chickens.