Poultry
Small Flock Management
Poultry producers take pride in owning a well-managed, productive flock. However, most flocks suffer from management problems that prevent the birds from ever reaching their productive potential. The vast majority of problems encountered in the poultry house are not related to nutrition or disease, but from mismanagement by the poultryman.
The information contained in this section is designed to assist the poultry producer in avoiding management problems and preventing potentially serious problems in the flock. The emphasis in poultry production must always be placed upon the prevention of problems, rather than correcting them after they occur.
The discussions and publications that follow can be useful to both novice and experienced poultry producers for expanding their knowledge of poultry.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the best breed of chickens to raise?
- How can I sex day-old chicks?
- How can I stop my hens from eating their eggs?
- Why did my laying hens stop laying eggs this winter?
- How do I properly care for my laying hens to get maximum egg production?
- How can I identify poor egg producing hens in my flock?
- My laying hens seem to lose their feathers in the late autumn months and often stop laying. What is wrong?
- How do I stop my chickens from pecking on each other?
- Why do my birds have an absence of feathers on parts of their bodies?
- What is best brooding temperatures?
- How do I treat chickens to rid them of mites, lice and ticks?
- When should hens be culled?
Other Information
- Breeds and Varieties of Chickens lists the breeds and varieties of all chicken, turkey, and waterfowl recognized by the American Poultry Association.
- Solutions for Poultry lists many solutions and remedies to treat problems in the poultry flock.
Poultry
- Best Breeds of Chickens
- Breeds and varieties of chickens
- Causes for hens eating their eggs
- Causes of pecking and cannibalism
- Causes of Poor Feathering
- Chick removal from hatchery
- Commercial Poultry
- Constructing a Plywood Incubator
- Constructing a Polystyrene Incubator
- Construction of a still-air incubator
- Contents of chicken egg
- Culling Hens
- Disease and Pest Control
- Diseases of Poultry
- FAQ
- Feeds and Nutrition
- Fumigation and sanitation of hatching eggs
- Game Birds and Ratites
- General characteristics of Disinfectants
- Good management of egg producing hens
- Hatchery Management Guide for Game Bird and Small Poultry Flock Owners
- Hatching egg storage period
- How long to produce fertile eggs?
- Important incubation factors
- Incubation duration periods
- Incubation temperature requirements
- Management of egg producing hens
- Mistakes When Grilling Broilers
- Molting of laying hens
- Pesticides
- Pesticides Used for Control of Poultry Insect Pests
- Pipped eggs that do not hatch
- Quail Brooding Temperatures
- Quail Feed Formulations
- Quail Feed Medications
- Quail Feeding Programs
- Quail Pox
- Raising Backyard Chickens - Bio Security
- Reproduction & Incubation
- Sanitation of hatching eggs
- Sexing of day-old chicks
- Small Flock Management
- Solutions and Treatments
- Space needs of Bobwhite Quail
- Stages in chick embryo development
- Stimulating the setting instinct
- Temperatures recommended for brooding quail
- Testing incubated eggs for embryo development
- Time hens continue to produce fertile eggs
- Treatments for External Poultry Parasites
- Treatments for Poultry Parasites
- Trouble Shooting Failures with Egg Incubation
- Ulcerative Enteritis in Quail
- Washing of hatching eggs
- Why do hens stop laying eggs?
- Will all hens set on eggs?