More than 5000 chickens are reared annually as a source of food, for both their meat and their eggs in Drukhshan Balkh poultry farm
Chickens farmed for meat are called broiler chickens. Chickens will naturally live for 6 or more years, but broiler chickens typically take less than 6 weeks to reach slaughter size. A free range or organic meat chicken will usually be slaughtered at about 14 weeks of age. Chickens farmed for eggs are called egg-laying hens, mostly at household level people keeps egg laying hens as free-range chicken, which is chicken that is not caged and has a yard in which to run around. Eggs laid by free-range hens are lower in cholesterol than commercial chickens that are caged in small cages. beside the food security purpose the poultry forming brings income especially for women’s.
For keeping chickens and having poultry business it’s necessary to know about chicken raising and its breads, in the page we introduce you some of breads which will be easy and useful to keep.
Araucana Chickens: The Araucana is a dual-purpose chicken breed prized for its blue-tinted, medium-sized eggs and plump carcass. The Araucana chicken breed is medium-sized and comes in Black, Black-breasted Red, Golden Duckwing, Silver Duckwing and White varieties. It has a small pea comb and lays medium-sized blue or bluish-green eggs. The breed has yellow skin and yellow- or willow-colored shanks. It’s rumpless (no tail) and has ear tufts (clumps of feathers) growing from small tabs of skin near their ear openings
Buckeye Chickens: Buckeye chickens are dual-purpose, heritage chickens known for their luscious meat and their wintertime production of medium-sized, brown eggs. They are active foragers and a calm-natured chicken breed, making them ideal for backyard flocks and pasture-poultry applications. Buckeye chickens come in large-fowl and bantam sizes.
Holland Chickens: The rare Holland chicken is a wonderful dual-purpose breed that thrives in a free-range environment. Hens lay a good amount of white eggs yearly
The Holland is a medium-sized, heavy chicken breed with a meaty carcass. Its single comb is moderately large and bright red with six well-defined points. The White Holland variety is a result of crossing imported Holland stock with the White Leghorn, New Hampshire, Rhode Island Red and Lamona. The barred variety is the result of crossing the White Leghorn, Australorp, Barred Plymouth Rock and Brown Leghorn.
Jumbo Cornish Cross chicken : which is used for meat purpose largely
Chickens are kept by humans for their meat and eggs. Breeders tend to keep different types of chicken for these different purposes and meat chickens will often only reach 3 months old before they are killed, which is why it is crucial that chicken eaters ensure that the chicken they are eating has had the best existence possible in its few months of life. The same principle applies to the egg laying chickens with the typical commercial hen laying around 300 eggs in one year. After that, the hens tend to start laying fewer eggs and are generally killed by their breeder.
For any quality of chickens you can contact our sell person on: sales@drukhshanebalkh.com
In the bellow you will see the stages for chicken Production:
Though without a doubt, the chicken is the most universally eaten of all meats, beside its meat there is
the eggs which it produce, Eggs have been condemned, their high lecithin and methionine content ignored, yet lecithin is an essential part of our diet. It emulsifies fat, breaking it down to smaller fat droplets. This action speeds up and improves the digestion of fats by enzymes because the surface area is increased. Lecithin aids liver function, keeps the arterial lining free from cholesterol and prevents kidney and gallstones from forming. Methionine is also essential in the formation of nucleic acid of the genetic material of every cell. It’s a powerful antioxidant, assists in gall-bladder function and detoxifies heavy metals and excess histamine levels from the body.
The egg is more than nature’s most perfect food. It’s also nature’s most perfect creation. How can healthy eggs contain anything not wholesome and beneficial to humans? The contents in an egg depend on what was in the chicken that laid it!
High quality eggs are rich in vitamins A and D, as well as choline for mental acuity in adults. Like the B vitamins, choline is a coenzyme needed for metabolism. Choline exists in all living cells, but is probably best known as a major part of lecithin–the emulsifier that keeps fats and cholesterol from clumping together in the blood.
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