Backyard Poultry

• Inexpensive
• Produces a natural food source
  • Eggs
  • Meat
• Pets
• Children Love to Collect Eggs
• Educational Tool
  • One can learn about this food source 

• Chickens are a social animal and historically birds are not known to do well on their own
• Manure Disposal
  • Timely and contained manure disposal is important
    • Reduces the smell
    • Keeps neighbours happy
    • Reduces adverse health affects that lead to mortality
  • Green or compost bins work well for manure storage 

Sources include but are not limited to:

• Jones's Chick Days
• Direct from a Hatchery
  • Bonnie's 
  • Frey's

Choose a Type

• Coventional
• Organic
• Non-GMO

What is the purpose

• Layer (Produces Eggs)
  • Day Old to 4 Weeks use a Chick Starter
  • 4 to 18/19 Weeks use a Pullet Developer
  • Over 18/19 Weeks use a Layer Feed
    • Feeds will vary in protein levels depending on your flocks needs
• Broiler (Produces Meat)
  • Day Old to 4 Weeks use a Chick Starter
  • 4 weeks to Finish (Butcher) use a Chicken Grower
  • Optional Over 6 weeks to use a Chicken Finisher
• Medicated verses Non-medicated
  • Plain
    • Provides the bird(s) with the required nutrients to
      • live & grow
      • produce eggs & meat
  • Medicated
    • Provides the bird(s) with the reqiured nutrients to
      • live & grow
      • produce eggs & meat
    • Has the added benefit of preventing the chance of coccidiosis from occurring
    • Can help chicks improve their immune system right away
    • You must abide by the withdrawls dates when butchering
• Other options include
  • Conventional
  • Non-GMO
  • Organic

Water is an essential part of a chickens life.

• Clean & Fresh Water
  • Reduces chance of Illness
  • Keeps Birds Healthy
  • Promotes Feed Intake
  • More Appealing to the birds
  • Reduces the chance of Mortality

The Chicken Coop should:

• Prevent
  • Birds from escaping
  • Predators from entering
• Allow Birds to acess water and feed
• Be Weatherproof
  • Ventilated to allow air circulation in Hot Temps
  • Draft proof to keep birds warm in Cold Temps
• Be Cleaned regularly
  • To reduce
    • Chance of Illness
    • Odour developemnt
  • To keep birds healthy
• Bedding Types
  • Shavings
  • Straw
  • Pellets
• Winter Management Tips

Reduce food sources by

• Cleaning up spilled feed
• Keeping feed bags closed
• Don't overfeed birds as it produces wasted feed
• Keep in a dry, sealed conatianer
  • reduces access & the chance of becoming wet 
    • Wet feed will mold

Flys can be an issue no matter how clean the Coop is, to manage them try these tips:

• Keep Coop clean and tidy
• Use Fly Management supplies such as Sticky tapes, rolls and strings as well as Fly Traps (Call or Stop in at Miller's Stone for details)
• Make sure to change Fly Tapes etc as they fill up

• Brooder Box (Small Box to keep the baby Chicks Warm)
• A Coop (Chicken House)
• Waterers
• Feeders
• Bedding
• Heat Lamps
  • Heat Bulbs
• Rake and Shovel for cleaning and bedding
• Feed
  • Starter
  • Grower
  • Layer
  • Finisher
• Electrolytes

    Jones Feed Mills carries a variety of Poultry Products including Feeders, Drinkers and some of the other supplies mentioned above at our Heidelberg and Wroxeter locations. For details on what we carry check here:

• Poultry Drinkers
• Poultry Feeders
• Other Poultry Supplies