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In their natural setting (like a wild bird) the number one food of a chicken is grass. Second will be bugs that eat grass or bugs that eat other bugs. Third will be anything else including mice and other small critters dead or alive. Everything is fair game for a chicken including grubs and worms. Overall a chicken will eat anything that is edible. Notice that the cured seeds of grasses (such as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc.) are not a normal staple for chickens. That's because those "foods" are seasonal and only readily available in quantity if man raises them, harvests them, stores them, and then hands them out throughout the year. Man invented grain farming and grain as a food source. Consequently grain is an inappropriate food for all animal life – including people. Chickens on commercial farms eat commercial chicken feed which is a mixture of grains (mostly corn) and protein feeds. However, for better tasting, nutritionally superior eggs plus happier chickens, chickens should only eat their natural foods and run loose in grassy fields.
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What do you call hens that no longer lay?
Stew meat. ;) Old chickens don't actually have any special nomenclature. "Pullets" are young, immature female chickens and "hens" are mature, female chickens. However, most hens will continue laying until the year they die, just not nearly in the quantity that they did when they were 1 year old.
What are female cocks called?
If your asking about chickens then the answer is hen/s
What are old chickens called?
Old chickens are called hens or stewing hens. These are chickens that no longer produce eggs. Their muscles are tough and need to be stewed a long time to become a delicious treat. They make good chicken soup.
How do male chickens attract female chickens?
Typically, they will try to attract hens by showing them food. Once they find something tasty (or something they think is tasty but the hens find out is inedible), they will call the hens over using a 'chook chook' sound, that increases in pitch and frequency with the perceived 'value' of the food. It's not usual to hear a rooster frantically calling the hens over if he's found something particularly good. Once he's got them by his side, he'll usually circle them, and sometimes crow a few times.
What are the advantages and disadvantages about barn hens egg production?
· The chickens have protection from the elements and predators. · The hens can still move around easily. · The hens have more social connection with other hens. · Allows hens to have a greater behavioural repertoire.
Are the eggs you eat from chickens or eggs?
They are from CHICKENS OR HENS because an egg can not produce another egg. (They are hens not chickens.)
Are chicken and hens the same type of bird?
Yes, chickens and hens are the same type of bird. Hens are female chickens, while roosters are male chickens.
What is the name for a number of hens?
a group of hens or chickens is a flock! :)
Are hens and chickens the same type of bird?
Yes, hens are female chickens, so they are the same type of bird.
Do boy hens lay eggs am trying to say do boy hens lay eggs all year?
Hens are mom chickens and roosters are dad chickens. Only mom chickens, hens, lay eggs. They lay eggs all year.
What do hens produce?
Hens produce eggs. If you're meaning chickens. <:-)
What is a good noun for chickens?
Some synonyms for the noun 'chickens' are: poultry hens roosters chicks birds fowl products food commodity egg producers
Are most chickens that are consumed hens?
No.
Do hens hibonate?
No chickens do not hibernate nor do they migrate.
Why do farmers breed hens?
more hens = more eggs + more chickens (possibly more hens) = £££££
Is wild bird food good for hens and roosters?
No, chickens have much different nutritional needs from regular birds.
How chick differ from a hen?
chicks are baby hens hens are female chickens
