Category Livestock Industry

Egg Laying Problems

Here are the top problems you may experience with laying hens and how to fix them! 1. Floor Eggs Problem: Your new layers are laying all their eggs on the floor and the eggs are getting cracked, dirty and broken.…

The Chicken or The Egg?

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This question has puzzled minds and made people wonder for millennia. Ancient philosophers felt that this question was a smaller version of a larger question: How did life and the universe begin?…

Ancona Chickens

Uses: Exhibition. Utility: eggs. Eggs: 200 – 270 white / cream. Origin: Italy Weight: Cock: 2.7 – 2.95Kg, Hen: 2.25 – 2.5Kg. Bantam Cock: 570 – 680g, Hen: 510 – 620g. Colour: Beetle Green ground tipped with white. Useful to…

Flying Chickens

When people think of chickens, the last thing they imagine is a bird of that size gracefully floating in the air, soaring and swooping as they glide along in the breeze. And they would be right. This does not mean,…

Growth trends in camel market

THE local camel population is growing owing to a rising demand for its milk and an increase in its sacrifice during Eid-ul-Azha. The increase in exports of the desert animal to Gulf countries has also attracted livestock breeders towards camel-raising.…