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How to Raise Chickens for Eggs and Meat
Rating: 3.9 out of 5(4 ratings)
10 students

How to Raise Chickens for Eggs and Meat

A Quick Guide on Raising Chickens for the Beginning Homesteader
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 9/2020
English
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What you'll learn

  • How to Raise Chickens for Eggs and Meat
  • Raising Chicken for Eggs and Meat Tips
  • Raising Chicken for Eggs and Meat Lessons
  • Raising Chicken for Eggs and Meat Basics

Course content

1 section8 lectures1h 2m total length
  • Welcome0:11

    Learn how to raise chickens for eggs and meat with a quick guide for beginners and homesteaders.

  • Part 1: Which Came First-the Chicken or the Egg?17:50

    Learn how to start a backyard flock for eggs or meat, choosing between buying day-old chicks or incubating eggs, and managing incubation conditions.

  • Part 2: Transitioning Chicks: Pullets and Cockerels8:22

    Set up a brooder box with heat, bedding, and starter feed to keep newborn chicks warm and healthy; move them to the coop once fully feathered.

  • Part 3: Housing13:07

    Discover practical housing options for chickens, from purchasing or building coops to designing space for two square feet per bird, predator protection, and essential water, feed, and nesting arrangements.

  • Part 4: Increase Efficiency and Eco-Friendliness5:50

    Boost efficiency and eco-friendliness with solar fences and mobile coops. Select bedding such as pine shavings or sand, and implement deep litter and automatic door openers.

  • Part 5: Raising Chickens for Egg Production3:30

    Learn the basics of raising chickens for egg production, including when hens lay, how daylight and diet affect output, and managing moulting with protein and lighting adjustments.

  • Part 6: Raising Chickens for Meat9:40

    Choose a meat-focused strategy by selecting hybrid fast-growing birds or dual-purpose breeds, provide adequate space, and master humane slaughter, plucking, and aging for quality chicken meat.

  • Part 7: After the First Season (and Beyond)4:20

    Decide when to butcher nonlaying hens after the first season, test egg production with a week in a chicken tractor, and manage wintering with ventilation, deep litter, and supplementation.

Requirements

  • No experience necessary - All levels welcome - Beginners, Intermediate, & Advanced

Description

Raising chickens is a fun adventure for a beginning or experienced chicken farmer to embark upon. In doing so, you’ll increase your overall health and have a lot of fun doing so! However, it does require some basic research.

This course will teach you how to:

• Select the best breed of chicken for your needs

• Raise chickens from day-old chicks

• Incubate eggs

• Construct and equip brooders

• Raise chicks

• Troubleshoot health problems in freshly hatched chicks

• Transition pullets and cockerels to an outdoor coop

• Build and equip coops with feed, water, nesting, and roosting systems

• Evaluate whether free-ranging is right for your birds

• Prevent the incidence of predators

• Decide upon the best coop construction for your lifestyle

• Provide proper feed, water, shelter, and bedding

• Increase efficiency and environmental friendliness through helpful add-ons

• Raise laying hens

• Increase and maintain egg production

• Deal with the molting process

• Raise healthy meat birds

• Slaughter, butcher and process meat birds

• Overwinter (or raise birds throughout cold months)

• Maintain adequate egg production during the winter

• Improve meat quality and flavor

• Be a successful and happy chicken owner!


About the Expert:

Rebekah White lives in upstate New York on a small, cozy slice of heaven. She raises chickens, pigs, honey bees, and vegetables to sustain herself and her close family. When she’s not at home with her animals, she is working at her “day job” teaching high school English at a rural school.

In the meantime, she enjoys running, traveling, cooking (especially with fresh produce and homegrown meats!), and writing (ideally about the farm!). She has also published articles on home remedies and recipes, canning and food preservation, and various general interest stories.

Who this course is for:

  • People who are interested at raising chickens for eggs and meat