An Independent Chick in my last cage

Actually, I don't want to keep chickens anymore, but a friend gave me a chick so I had no choice but to keep it. I just keep the chick in small bird cage. its size about 30x20x50 cm. it is enough for a samll chicks. 

the chick was a mmale of layer chicken. the male of the layer is not marketable. the farmer juts buy the female layer because they can lays so many eggs. 

I just raise it and hope it would grow up. i release the chciken in day. I will put the chciken in the night. After weeks, the chicken loose. i feel sad about it. 

i loved the chicken though i had not want it for the first time. i feel so sorry. the chciken was intelelgent due it can live alone. i believe a cat or rat eat it. there were so many rat and cat in my house. 

When the chicken release from the mother?

 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.

Raise the hen with its chicken may no profitable for the company but for family it is profitable. They do not have to buy incubator machine and provide the special flock for the chick. They just release to backyard.

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How to raise broiler chicken?

To provide chicken meat, you can raise some chicken in your backyard. The broiler is the best choice for you. It can grow in eight weeks. The weight in eight week or two month could reach 2.5 kilos. In my country, the farmer just raise the chicken for 40 days which weight is 1.5 kg to 1.75 kg. In my country, people prefer young small chicken than the bigger chicken.

To produce the broiler, you can do like this:

1. Provide the brooder cage for the chick. Do not forget to facilitate it with light that is very important to keep the chick warm. Provide also the coop for the big broiler. When the chick grows bigger, you can remove to the pen.Read also "How to Care Baby Chicken"

2. Feed them with starter food up to two weeks. After two weeks, you can feed them with grower up to harvest.

3. Put also the waterer. You can mix vitamin and mineral into water.

4. Vaccine the chicken to protect form diseases.

5. Clean the cage periodically. Use disinfectant if necessary.

6. After 60 days, you can harvest to the chicken. You can harvest early, if you want small chicken. In my country, we can sell the chicken to wholesale or market or sell directly to other people. 

Notice:
Broiler farm is stinky. Therefore, you should put the cage far from your neighbor or your neighbor will complain. If you raise 3-5 chicken, it is not a big problem.