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 »