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Frugal food Tips - grow your own eggs
OK strictly speaking the chickens grow the eggs...
Getting free food or food for nearly nothing. Why not keep chickens?
There's a great ready to go setup you can get called an eglu - they reckon
a pair of chickens cost about 6p a day to feed and will lay 6-12 eggs
a week.
Hens have appeared on Breakfast news today 29th September 05 on BBC news.
They showed hens in the garden of a town house in an eglu. The reporter
said its one of the UK's fastest growing hobbies.
The sites listed on this page should give you all the information you
need on keeping hens and chickens in the UK. We hope this page inspires
you to find out more and perhaps buy your own henhouse and keep hens!
Chicken
Characteristics - http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/resource-room/general/poultry/chicken.htm
Descriptive diagram of both the male and female chicken. |
Incubation
and Embryology Resources - http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/eggs/res00-index.html
University of Illinois Extension research project with
varied information on subjects related to breeding, incubating, hatching,
and raising chicks. |
The
Chook Shed - http://members.iinet.net.au/~greggles1/
Information on housing, feeding, and breeding plus
a message board and breed details. |
Chickenbox - http://www.kippengrabbelton.be/engels/
A collection of topics all about chickens and aspects
of their care and keeping with breed information table and photographs,
"Chicken ABC" alphabetical topic index, and question and
answer section to name a few. |
Red
Square - http://www.the-coop.org/redsquare/redsqr1.html
Rhode Island Red resource page. Breeders of single
comb Rhode Island Reds share photo album and articles on breeding
and breed characteristics. |
Pekin
Bantams - http://www.pekinbantams.com
Articles, forum, and links for those raising bantams. |
The
Urban Chicken - http://www.al.com/specialreport/mobileregister/?chickens.html
Mobile Register, Alabama news, articles on chicken
care and keeping and on laws regarding backyard flocks. Has how to
build a chicken ark. |
The
Life Cycle of the Chicken - http://www.kidfarm.net/chicken.htm
Outline of development of a chicken from before to
after being in the egg. Chick feeding information, breeds information,
informational coloring pages, and science projects with an egg. |
Bantams - http://cecommerce.uwex.edu/pdfs/NCR209.PDF
University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension publication.
Downloadable PDF booklet. |
How
To Raise Day-Old Chicks in Your Back Yard - http://www.webelfin.com/chickens/index.html
Information on raising chicks with minimum equipment,
including feeding, setup, problems, sexlinks, breeds, broody hens,
pastured poultry, and free range chickens. |
Chicken
Production - http://www.antwifarms.com/chickenhome.shtml
Collection of links to research materials on production
chicken husbandry including news, diseases, economics, reproduction,
management, genetics, housing, and nutrition. |
Handbook
on Poultry Diseases - http://www.asasea.com/po36_97.html
Information to assist veterinarians, students, and
avian health professionals to diagnose, treat and prevent diseases
in poultry flocks. |
Patty's
Greene Acres - http://www.geocities.com/southforksilkies/
Photos and breed characteristics of White, Gray, Blue,
Black, and Splash Silkie bantams. |
The
Dutch Bantam Site - http://www.the-coop.org/dutch/dutch1.html
Information site on the Dutch bantam chicken with articles,
pictures, and a discussion board. |
The
Red Jungle Fowl - http://www.geocities.com/hs_wong33/RedJungleFowl.html
History and characteristics of the original chicken. |
Confessions
of a Chicken-Lover - http://www.angelfire.com/oh/ZebraDirectory/chickens.html
This site is made by a girl who has been raising chickens
in her backyard since she was 8 and includes pictures and information
about the hobby. |
Pocket
Flocks - http://www.angelfire.com/de/pocketflocks/
Bantam chicken breeding, networking, and care information
and links to many resources. |
Kemp's
Koops - http://www.poultrysupply.com/poultry/
Information on Old English Game bantams featuring photo
series of hatching process, articles on breeding and raising, photos
from the 1997 National Meet, and photos of varieties. |
Best
Breeds of Chickens - http://msucares.com/poultry/management/poultry_best_breed.html
Mississippi State University Extension Service discussion
on the selection of a particular breed for a home flock. |
National
Dumpy Page of Scotland - http://members.aol.com/scotsdumpy/index.htm
History, information, and pictures of the Scots Dumpy
breed of chicken, in a graphically-oriented presentation with a strong
Celtic flair. |
Longtail
Fowl and Longcrowers of the World - http://www.longtail-fowl.com/
Articles, information, and pictures of ornamental longtail
fowl in many breeds. |
The
City Chicken - http://home.comcast.net/~kkskinner/chickens.html
Information on raising chickens in the city. Includes
questions and answers, pictures, and links. |
Small
Chicken Coop Ideas - http://www.geocities.com/chickenfarmerjoyce/index.html?985724188600
Describes ideas on building small chicken coops. Includes
drawings and photos. |
Cyndilou's
Chicken Flock: A Place about Chickens - http://www.cyndilou6.com
Information about chickens, their care, coops, breeds,
chick care and brooder area, chicken pictures, and links. |
Speckled
Sussex - http://geocities.com/heartland/ranch/2751/
Information on the Speckled Sussex including description
from the American Bantam Association Standard, future breed club,
old show dates, and links to other breeders. |
Old
English Game Bantam Photo Tour - http://old-english.freeservers.com/photo.html
Photos and breed information of varieties of Old English
Game bantams. |
Gamefowl
Dot Com - http://gamefowl.com/index.php
Discussion board focused on game chicken breeds with
topics such as: breeding methods, egg care and incubation, biddie
care, health and disease, and conditioning. Requires registration
to enter. |
Adding
Amprolium to Feed and Weight Gain - http://chikinman.tripod.com
Science Fair Project on the effects of amprolium on
weight gain in healthy broiler chicks. |
Mongold's
Black Tailed Buff Old English Game Bantams - http://www.mongold1.com/mongold/btb.html
Photos and descriptions of chick down coloration and
adult plumage of the variety. |
Orpington
Breed Standards - http://freespace.virgin.net/mick.barrett/Breed_Standards.htm
Reference source for the recognized show/breed standards
for the Orpington chicken. |
C
& H Livestock Company - http://www.candhlivestock.com/chickens.html
Contract Growers for Sanderson Farms, Inc. of Bryan,
Texas share details on housing, hatching and growing broiler chickens. |
Articles - http://www.ameritech.net/users/rasillon/allarticles.html
Set of articles including general directions for sick
birds, basic hatching, egg eating, basic silkie care, silkie genetics,
and washing chickens before a show. |
Pure
Breed Chickens - http://domino-20.prominic.com/A55731/Photos.nsf/Chickens!OpenPage
History, information, and pictures of Wellsummer and
Maran breeds. |
Orpington
Poultry - http://orpingtons.com/
Information source for Orpington chickens with breed
information and pictures of varieties, breeding information, and history. |
Funny
Farm Poultry - http://www.geocities.com/funny_farm_poultry/index.html
Origins of both Silkies and true rumpless Aruacana. |
Care
of Day Old Chickens - http://www.petalia.com.au/Templates/StoryTemplate_Process.cfm?specie=&story_no=250
Chick selection and care sheet. |
| Appenzeller Spitzhauben. |
| Chamois Pencilled Fresian |
| Pekin Bantam |
| Orpington [Buff & Blue] |
| Light Sussex |
| Black Rock hybrid |
Welsumer
[duckwing & partridge] |
| Marans |
| Rhode Island Red |
| White Wyandotte |
Leghorn
[black, white, brown] |
| Plymouth Rock |
| Scots Grey |
| Silkie Hens |
| Araucana |
| Cream Legbar |
Barring: Stripes of light and dark across each feather.
Bay: Browny red colour.
Brassiness: Yellow colouring on the back and wing feathers.
Cuckoo banding: Stripes where the boundaries are indistinct.
Daw eyed: Pearly eyes like a Jackdaw.
Double laced: Two stripes running round the edge of the feather.
Dusky: Yellowy black colouring.
Foxy: A rusty red colour.
Frizzled: Feathers that curl back on themselves, with the end eventually
pointing towards the bird’s head.
Gay: Plumage with ‘too much’ white in the marking.
Ground colour: The main plumage colour.
Lacing: A thin stripe of colour running all the way around the edge of
a feather.
Lustre: Shiny plumage. When the feathers are black this is described as
a sheen.
Mealy: Ground colour mottled with a paler colour.
Moons: Round spangles at the tip of the feathers.
Mossy: A muddled marking.
Mottled: Plumage marked with spots of different colour.
Nankin: A yellowy colour named after nankeen cloth.
Pencilling: Fine lines marking on the feathers.
Peppering: A dark colour stippled over a lighter one.
Self colour: A uniformly coloured bird.
Sheen: Green surface shine on black feathers.
Spangled: The pattern produced when there is a spot of colour at the end
of the feathers differing from the ground.
Splashed: Contrasting colour to ground randomly splashed over feathers
Ticked: Feathers with a v-shaped marking at the tip.
Undercolour: The colour of the fluff under the main feathers.
Wing bar: A line of colour across the middle of a wing.
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