chicken raising
Backyard flock keeping
Chicken raising is the practice of keeping domestic fowl for eggs, meat, or both.
The term covers everything from industrial poultry operations to backyard flocks of a few hens.
Raising chickens has become popular among hobbyists and homesteaders seeking fresh eggs or self-sufficiency: We got into chicken raising during the pandemic.
- coopPoultry enclosure
- hensFemale chickens
- laying hensFemale poultry producing eggs
- roosterMale domestic fowl
- eggsReproductive cells in shells
fresh eggs · egg laying · brooding · pecking · pecking order · feathers · feed · scratch · nesting · chicks · pullet · laying · flock · free-range · backyard · brood · incubator · heat lamp
- homesteadinghomesteading, self-sufficiency, off-grid living, off-grid, vegetable garden
- Farm EducationFFA, school gardens, garden clubs, plant science
- island economiesfishing, tourism, copra, coconut farming, sugarcane
- tropical farmingtropical crops, banana plantation, coconut palms, coconut farming, coconut plantations
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Raising bovines commercially
beef production · dairy farming · pig farming · horse breeding · sheep herding
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Growing plants for harvest
grain cultivation · wheat farming · viticulture · horticulture · vegetable farming
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Pursuing wild fowl
pheasant hunting · factory farming · foraging · fishing · gathering
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