If you keep a couple of chickens around in order to have fresh eggs every day, then raising chickens is not a big deal for you. But if you are thinking about raising hundreds, even thousands of chickens to supply the market with fresh chicken and eggs, then what you dont know about chicken farming could definitely hurt both you and your budding enterprise. Unlike the chickens in cartoons of old, nests dont come complete with little tubes in which the eggs roll down to a waiting basket, ready for you to pick up and cart away. Proper handling and maintaining of both your chickens and their eggs can make all the difference, not only in the number of eggs that are produced, but also the numbers of chicks that successfully hatch twenty-one days after they are laid.
Raising chickens means setting up chicken houses properly, maintaining clean and sterile conditions for producing uniform sized eggs, and knowing what to do once you gather and transfer the fertilized eggs into the incubator. Sure, you could let the chickens do it, but in todays fast-paced, competitive world, you need to be ahead of the game, and take the proper steps to get maximum efficiency in your egg and chick...