UC Davis has unveiled its new Pastured Poultry Farm, home to 150 young laying chickens and a living laboratory where students and researchers hope to develop innovative solutions benefiting ...
In a time of economic constriction, a home poultry flock can contribute to food security — if you’re not totally dependent on purchasing poultry feed to keep it producing. The home flock that makes ...
From an animal perspective, elevated microbial pressure drives early microbiome evolution which is foundational to intestinal ...
I've been wanting to try and ferment chicken feed for ages so I decided to finally give it a go. There's no science behind ...
Chickens revel in eating protein-packed worms. You can add worms to your compost scraps to offer your poultry a steady protein source. Because they’re omnivores, chickens are perhaps the most ...
I selected 6 different types of feed/food to check which feed my chickens like the best. This video shows the test and ...
Chickens peck at food scraps in a compost pile at Black Dirt Farm, a chicken farm that uses food waste as feed. Photo by Justin Trombly/VTDigger Chicken farmers who also run compost operations say a ...
Supplements containing arsenic have been banned in the European Union since 1999 and in North America since 2013. In many countries they are still added to poultry feed to prevent parasitic infection ...
Despite having a 1,050 km coastline and vast inland waters, Pakistan has failed to capitalise on its fisheries sector to develop a sustainable poultry feed industry. Fish meal, a high-protein feed ...