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Breeding Rhode Island chickens... the most important information

Rhode Island chicken is considered one of the best types of chicken currently present in the Arab world.. for several advantages that made it one of the most popular types of chicken in demand among poultry breeders. Rhode Island chicken is a two-product type, as it combines abundant egg production and also good meat .production

So Rhode Island chicken has become a great interest for chicken breeding enthusiasts in .recent years

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Rhode Island Specifications

Rhode Islasand chicken or red chicken, some call it, is characterized by its ability to adapt to all difficult climates, whether severe cold weather or high summer heat, Rhode Island chicken is able to continue production and normal growth with all climatic difficulties.

The Rhode Island breed is also characterized by abundant egg production.

The Rhode Island chicken is capable of producing 220 eggs per year, which is a good rate compared to other types of dual-purpose poultry.

Roosters in Rhode Island chickens are also characterized by rapid growth and appropriate weight. At the age of eight months, the rooster will weigh between three and four kilograms.

Rod Dick Specifications

Its body contains red feathers with some bright black and green feathers. The feathers are broad and shiny.

The most prominent characteristic of the Rhode Island rooster in the original breed: 

Its head is of medium size and relatively long, while the shape of the face is smooth with a light red color.

The shape of the crest is like a saw, and it may have five teeth that are symmetrically organized and straight. We can also find the crest in another form with a relatively wide surface.

The color of the eyes is bright red and orange, they have a sharp and serious look, while the ears are almond-shaped, of medium size and long, with a red color. The two beards are also red in color and of a consistent length.

As for the most important feature that distinguishes the shape of the beak, the roosters have a simple arc, and it has a red color that tends to yellow and is of medium length.

The shape of the neck is distinguished by the length of the feathers around it. The back is relatively long and broad in shape until the wings. As for the chest, it is wide and the wings are wide and contain black feathers. The tail is of medium size and contains black color and bright green.. The thighs contain dense feathers and a solid and strong shape. As for the legs, they are yellowish in color and long or medium in shape. To four kilograms at the age of 8 or 9 months

Specifications of the Rhode Island female:

The color of the feathers is bright red, the crest in the Rhode Island chicken is small in size and red, the shape of the back is straight, and the legs tend to be yellow. As for her weight, it reaches three kilograms at the age of eight months

The Rhode Island female is characterized by a high production of eggs, as it is possible that her annual production exceeds 220 eggs.. She is also distinguished by the ability to lie down and incubate eggs well.. Also, she takes good care of her chicks, taking care of them and protecting them.

Specifications of Rhode Island chicks:

The most important feature of Rhode Island chicks in terms of shape is brown color. Or the yellow color, according to the color of the strain, which is red or white. It is also characterized by a high appetite for eating and excessive activity.

Rhode Island chicks are also characterized by rapid growth.

How to raise Rhode Island chickens

For the success of the Rhode Island chicken breeding process, several important foundations must be followed, mainly concentrated in the good selection of breeding mothers and males … and also a good selection of the place of breeding and the methods of concentrating the poultry house appropriately and systematically; It ensures the ease of conducting the breeding process in a good and practical way, as well as controlling and eliminating dangerous diseases.

Principles of breeding Rhode Island:

First, it is important to choose a suitable place for the concentration of the domesticated animal, in which there is an easy way to access it, and the place must be far from residential or industrial areas; To avoid contamination and inconvenience.

It should have basic public utilities, the most important of which is water suitable for consumption and cleaning, and electric energy for lighting and operating machines intended for hatching eggs.

It is important to choose a place far from other chicken farms at least 1 km to avoid the transmission of diseases.

It is best to fence the farm with a fence that isolates and protects from strangers and predators.

Doing the construction of the poultry farm, with an elaborate plan, so that special buildings are allocated for each age stage, separated from each other.

Such as allocating a building with cement walls and a ceiling insulating from the climate factor, connected to a fenced theater and with awnings or trees that provide shade during the summer, and it is allocated for mothers producing eggs and stallions, and it has suspended feeders to ensure the cleanliness of the feed and waterers suitable for the number of chickens and also Concentration of wooden boxes to put nests out. With a sufficient number for the number of chickens, and also a concentration of perches raised from the floor by fifty centimeters, so that the chickens sleep on them at night easily and comfortably.

It is also important to allocate a suitable place for small chicks; It shall be composed of insulating walls and covered with a suitable roof with proper ventilation and a concrete floor in order to facilitate the cleaning and sterilization process. It shall have heating heaters and the necessary lighting.

It is also important to allocate a suitable place for laying the mechanisms for hatching eggs and collecting and sterilizing eggs.

Providing poultry farms dedicated to raising small groups from the age of one month to the age of seven months, separated from each other by an insulating fence.. according to each age group.

Also allocate places to reserve sick or newly purchased chickens to avoid transmission of infection and control them.

Also, one of the most important foundations for the success of Rhode Island chicken breeding is the good selection of broodstock and breeding stallions, by purchasing poultry with high and suitable specifications; Free from diseases, with good general health, without birth defects, and with an ideal and strong body, and it is important to ensure that the poultry obtain the necessary and appropriate vaccinations.

The appropriate fodder for feeding chickens should be purchased according to each age group from well-known and reliable factories.

Relying on a veterinarian specialized in raising chickens is very important in order to provide advice and provide the necessary vaccinations in a timely manner, and antibiotics to prevent diseases and appropriate vitamins according to .each type and age stage.

If all these foundations are available; We will succeed in the Rhode Island chicken .breeding project, and very ideally.