Until today, the village people in my country still use the traditional farm. They hatch some eggs and eats some eggs. They do not use incubator machine to hatch the eggs, the owner does not separate the chicken after hatch but they let the chicken stay with its mother until they grow ups.
The chicken need warms from its mother because they do not
have complete feather. The thick feather cannot protect from the cold and rainy
day. The chick also need food. I remember I must break the rice so the chicken
able to eat the grain. Most the chicken feed at the backyard is big and the
small chicken it’s not able to eat the bigger grain. The mother will break the
grain into small pieces. There also some weed, grass and insect in backyard and
the mother hunt the cricket and feed them. The mother is bird but it does not overfeed
the chick like other birds. The mother also protects from the predator.
After the chicken grow, the mother expels the chicken. They
lay some egg again clutch. When the mother separates its chick. I guess after
the chicken have full plumage that can protect. It s about two or three month.
The chick will make a flock and they also separate from its brother or sister.
The owner may sell some chick to the neighbor or other people. Some also
slaughter for the owner. When celebrate something, we slaughter the chicken to celebrate
something like new born, wedding, the graduation, enter the house, and so many.
Some house also slaughter chicken in order to respect their guess.
Sometime a hen also expels the chicken early when they got
disturb from the owner. Sometimes unwise owner holds the chick and the hen does
not want to herd the chicken again.
