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Growing Chicken

Selecting Chicken Varieties
A variety of chicken is a race or family of chickens that have a general similarity in size, shape or profile, and the carriage. All chickens within one variety will have the same characteristics, namely: color of skin, this variety further divided into several classes. Class of chicken that has been much cultivated in general were given names associated with places of origin, such as the American, Asiatic, Bahasa Indonesia, the Mediterranean, and the like.

To start a small business in the field of poultry, there are three types of varieties that can be selected based on their maintenance goals, namely: laying hens, broiler or broiler, and chicken have the dual function of both the purpose.

Layer chicken – This chicken is relatively smaller body. Egg production between 250 to 280 rounds per year. Eggs produced during the first five months old and will continue to produce eggs until the age reaches 10-12 years. Generally, the best egg production will be obtained in the first year chickens start laying eggs. Egg production in the next few years will likely continue to decline.

There are two options for this layer is indistinguishable from the color of eggs, namely:

* Egg white
Laying hens with egg white is best races of the type of Leghorn. It’s just like flying and the chicken was very noisy. Other race types that produce white eggs which are Minorcas. Anconas, and California White.

* Eggs brown
While peterlur chicken with brown eggs are the best race of the Type Red Productions. Chicken hybrid is the result of crossbreeding of laying hens Rhode Island Red and New Hampshire. While chicken Rhode Island Red and New Hampshire alone has been classified as good in laying hens produce brown eggs.

Broiler chicken – Chicken Cornish Rock cross broilers belonging is best at this time. This chicken is the result of a cross from Cornish and Plymouth Rock. Other broilers belonging to both is the type of race Brahmas, Cochins, and Cornish. A good broiler chickens who ate two pounds of feed to produce one kilogram of body weight. Hens are generally sold into the market at the time of weighing up between one and three fourths to two and a half kg kg while the cock between three kilograms to four kilograms. Chicken is the faster growing economies will increasingly transform and maintain.

Double chicken – Chicken in this type are a mixture of laying hens and broilers. Dominiques, Plymouth Rocks, Sussex, Orpington, and Wynadottes are some chickens from a chicken race double. Native chicken in our country is included on the type ini.Telur chicken is brown and kind of raising their own children. In general they do not produce body weight as fast as broilers and also did not produce as many eggs of laying hens. This chicken distinctively as chickens reared in the backyard. Farmer will obtain eggs for the daily consumption of meat in addition to occasionally get a rooster on the excess amount that is needed and old meat chickens that are not productive anymore.

Another consideration in selecting the type of chicken varieties are local weather conditions at the ranch is located.

Woolly chickens would be more suitable place that bercuaca maintained colder than the thin feathered chickens. Orpingtons, Brahmas, Cochins. Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds and Wyandottes are feathered chickens thick which means suited to the cold weather. Leghorn, Minorca, Andalusian, Mediterranean chicken Hamburgs and others will be better preserved in places bercuaca warmer. Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s Grow Orchids

Orchid flowers – orchid / orchid / flower orkid bahasanku include classification of the types of orchids, orchid cultivation (planting and caring for orchids), along with some pictures / photo good orchid Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis / Phalaenopsis, Vanda orchid, Oncidium, Cymbidium, Cattleya, etc.
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Garden Window Boxes for Your House Identity

atla-060408-winbox01It is one thing to make a luxurious house but it is quite another thing to get a wonderful garden at our house for getting refreshment. Therefore, to build a beautiful garden is worth doing. Garden is not merely the place for us to plant flowers; it is the place to welcome our guests and giving a quite personal identity by leaving our taste of beauty in our front garden. Read the rest of this entry »

Beautify Your Garden with Ornamental Plants

Not all ornamental plants are planted directly on the ground at regular land line, but many ornamental plants commonly planted in the pot, be it flowers, such as fruit plants (Sale and Sale of Fruit & Seed Plants) which can be planted in in pots, or tabulampot, and others. However, not all pots are also good for ornamental plants, for which we can choose a pot which is most appropriate for these ornamental plants. Read the rest of this entry »

Know more bout Carrion Flower

Carrion flower now been scattered in various places on the globe, mainly owned by the botanical garden or a special planter. In America, the interest that arise are often given the nickname or given name and always attracts many visitors. Interestingly many visitors came to “enjoy the smell of his strength. Carrion flower typically located in Sumatra, Indonesia. Read the rest of this entry »

Grass Seeds: The Beginning of a Breathtaking Garden

Nothing can replace the fresh morning breeze with the fantastic smells of grass and heavenly green color in every blade of the grass. To own a garden with beautiful garden bridge is not enough to get the miraculous charm of a garden. Read the rest of this entry »

Gardening for Refreshing

I had a little trouble lately with headache as the effect of my job that was forcing so tightly. I need some refreshment but to do it, I need something like a long journey to a beach and heal my stress there. Read the rest of this entry »

Beauty Garden, Healthy Live with Kenikir

kenikir-tagetes_erectaHave you ever eaten leaves of Kenikir? for our major cities would have no easy way to get it. Taste and distinctive aroma make it inviting enough food tastes. Usually eaten raw leaves are good for lalap, vegetables or other Urap. Read the rest of this entry »

Rose Caring

Caring for roses is not too difficult because real interest does not require much maintenance. At times one or two months after planting, the plants should be watered the roses every day on a regular basis of Rose Caring in the morning we have to flush the soil only to be absorbed into the bottom. Then in the afternoon when the sun was not so visible we do watering on the leaves. Read the rest of this entry »

Behind the Rose

Interest is identical to the red color is often used as an expression of love. Roses do have beautiful flowers, but unfortunately it has sharp thorns that can make a bleeding hand. Every rose has a different, better color, composition, size, height, and number of thorns. Read the rest of this entry »