Saturday, February 10, 2007

Intial Exploration of food teams

Chicken:

  1. we can start right away. if we get baby chicks the chicken will become highly affectionate to us easily. however, we will still have to wait for it to grow in to a chicken hen. if we were to get a hen we would have to start to build a cope for the chicken. and we will be able to start instantly.
  2. we will first build a cope with a fence around it. then we will have to spend at least 10 minutes with the chicken and feed it regularly so it will be affectionate to us. we could than wait for the chicken to lay as many eggs as it wants to. however we must give it the space to roam around so we could have good eggs.
  3. we could raise chickens of almost any breed of chicken. however some breeds are actually harder to find such as the phoenix breed. my advice is that we should raise any breed of chicken that is actually available to us. however, i think we should go with the Brahma chicken. this breed of chickens are not that intelligent but easy to handle. however, if we want eggs right a way we could go with the Plymouth Rock chicken. they lay eggs year round with a slight decrease of production during the winter. however if we want chickens known for their meat and eggs the Dorking chicken could be the best way to go. it is the most common chicken we see on our dinner tables. however, it needs protection from the weather in the winter. but if we want chicks we could go with the rare Hamburg chicken. this chicken matures easily and are also known to be good egg producers but their eggs are rather small. or we could go with the Rhode Island Red chicken. this chicken are popular amongst Americans and are raised for their meat, eggs, or show.
  4. some issues are the cleanliest of the chicken and the roof garden. with the avian flu going around it will be a big risk to raise a potential candidate for the flu in captivity. other problems could be the weather and the schedule we have with vacations and weekends it will be hard to raise a chicken and give it the affection it deserves.

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