Fresh Chicken And Turkey - How To Find The Freshest Supplies

With most forms of food the freshest ingredients will produce the best meals for your family and friends.

So how can you make certain how fresh is the Chicken and poultry that you buy. Do you put all of your trust in your regular butcher, grocery store or superstore? In most cases they are the middlemen who receive supplies from their wholesalers. How they they be relied upon to know how old is the poultry on display, and how long has it been on display?

They might reassure you with comments such as 'it was fresh in today', or 'the eggs are collected daily'. The only way that you can be sure that it is fresh is if you personally see the eggs being collected and the poultry prepared for you to cook.

Without the need to go to the local poultry farm there is an easy way. Rear your own Chicken and Turkey at home and collect the eggs from your own back garden. Now it is not a difficult step and will provide you with great fun and a new hobby, and supply you with the freshest of food. Hundreds of thousands of people across the world are raising poultry on their own premises. Some just for the eggs or the meat, and others for raising birds to show at exhibitions and competitions.

The steps are very easy, but bearing in mind that you will be dealing with livestock it is vital that the interests of the poultry is a the top of your agenda all of the time.

The key first steps to rearing poultry at home

Step 1. Build a Chicken Coop for the new members of the family. They will need to be housed in a warm, clean and safe environment. Consisting of a Brooder Section for the new arrivals, with a Coop and Chicken run to be used as they develop. Making your own is easy and gets you personally involved right from the first stages. Encourage your family and friends to help. Bribe them with a free omelette for each four hours work. Needless to say they will have to wait a few weeks for the food.

Step 2. Study the advice about bringing up your new arrivals. Just consider them as part of the new family. Whilst they will not be around for as long as all your human members of your group of family and friends, they should be treated with care and respect.

Step 3. Take delivery of your first day old chicks, and supervise and check on their progress. Their needs in the first days will vary.

Step 4. Consider incubating your own from the eggs that the first groups will supply. Once again it is not difficult, and there is lots of sources for advice.

Step 5. Look at expanding your new empire. At your choice you have Chicken, Turkey, Geese, Duck, and game birds such as Quail, Pheasant, Grouse, Partridge not to forget the humble Pheasant.

Thoughts of the future in rearing poultry at home. There are many scales in which you can progress. How about becoming a 'local expert' and advising other people?

Consider selling some of your fresh produce to make a small living? Take selling your produce a stage further and providing ready cooked meals?

If you have the ambition and desire to rear your own poultry, then you will certainly have the confidence to take your efforts further.