ozbert farms
licensed poultry, chick, & hatching egg dealer
1212 Morphus Bridge Road - Wendell, North Carolina 27591 Call 919.365.7885 OR 919.633.5854
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Chicken Feed (Livestock Feed)
Livestock Feed and Store with home decor
& primitive items for the home
151 Price Hocutt Road Wendell, NC 27591
(919) 366-0068
Chicken Coops
Poultry Forums
Calves and Horses
Kenly, NC (919) 625-0043
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Commonly Used “Chicken Speak”
Bantam: chicken variety that is about half the size of the standard breed of chickens. These breeds are usually bred for ornamental reasons.
Brood: this could either mean the hens incubating their chicks or a flock of baby chickens.
Broodiness: a chicken’s desire to incubate their babies... unfertilized or fertilized.
Capon: a rooster that has been castrated.
Clutch: fertilized egg groups that hens tend to incubate.
Cockerel: a juvenile or young rooster.
Comb: this is the rubbery, red flat piece of flesh hanging on top of a chicken’s head. Roosters have a more prominent comb than hens.
Dust bath: A pattern of chicken behavior wherein they dig a hole in the ground and immerse their bodies in earth that has been loosened. They will get down and dirty until they get satisfied. Bathing in dust is a kind of defense mechanism to protect chickens from lice and mites that may invade their feathers and feed on their blood. A dust bath can either be natural or artificial.
Fertilized egg: an egg that came from mating of a rooster and a hen and is destined to become a baby.
Grit: bits of rock or sand bits that chickens tend to eat and is stored in the crop that is important for good digestion.
Hackles: chicken’s neck feathers.
Hen: female chicken.
Molt or molting: this is the process of feather shedding and re-growing which happens once a year. When molting season comes, laying season is suspended.
Pullet: female chick
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