how more chickens in smaller area affects growth?
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The effect of stocking density on the growth of chickens has been well documented. To spare you the scientific mumbo-jumbo, researchers have found that by increasing your stocking density (ie more birds per area) the more adverse effects on growth and other physiological parameters (like stress).  If you're interested there are a couple of journals where some classic studies have been presented: Poultry Science (www.poultryscience.org), Journal of Applied Poultry Research, and the Journal of Animal Science. Hope that helps!!
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"Chickens are as smart as small human children, according to animal behaviorist Dr. Chris Evans, who runs the animal behavior lab at Macquarie University in Australia and lectures on his work with chickens."\n\nAs we all know, small human children feel the urge to run out into the road at random... Perhaps the chicken shares this quality since it also shares the quantity of brain power. So logically, we now know that we have to ask small human children (since they can respond verbally to us instead of annoying and useless clucks) why they feel the pressing need to cross the road in order to find a true answer to the question :P
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depends on the animal..some have as little as 3%
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probably becuase that's where future players are grown. Or becuase many minor league teams were in small farming communities.
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i don't think it's currently the number as much as it's the location.. people are multiplying in regions incapable of sustaining them. ironically, birthrates are often decreased in agrarian areas.
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If you have 100 ppl living in 1 sq mile they have less room then 100 ppl living in 100sq miles, same population but the 1 sq mile ppl are more dense then the 100sq mile ppl. I hope that helped. Great Question though.
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The larger something is, the greater the volume is compared to surfac area.  Volume grows as a cube of the radius, while surface area grows as the square of the radius.  So, if a cell gets twice as large in diameter, the surface area grows by 4-fold, while the volume grows by 8-fold.  This is why small animals are so much more vulnerable to cold, because they have greater relative surface area through which to lose heat, while large animals have the opposite problem-not enough surface area to get rid of the heat generated in the large volume.
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Slightly more than the Hen... Atleast thats what the Hen told me...\n\n.:Fishie:.
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I think it's D because 1. diet always plays a factor in growth, 2. after the fifth generation, the crossing-over of genes during meiosis in each generation can cause variations in the height of the brothers, and 3. because fertilization is where the effects of meiosis (different haploid cells) come into play to make the next generation.
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Chickens can barely lift off the ground, since they lost the ability to fly through centuries of breeding, but ducks can fly at 64 km/h, and travel thousands of kilometres!
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Having several smaller meals does not mean that they have to be less nutritious than having 2 or 3 larger meals. Personally I prefer the smaller meals because eating every couple of hours prevents you from getting too hungry and eating more than you need.
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The size of the egg actually has little to do with the size of the embryo within, and more to do with the amount of energy needed to be stored for development of the embryo...  A large lizard may have a small egg because the embryo only needs to develop to a certain point before it's ready to emerge into the world and obtain energy from another source.  Among birds, there are in general two types of development... one where most of the development in done in the egg and little attention is payed to the chick once hatched, and the other is where not much development occurs in the egg and more attention and care is needed to assure the survival of the chick.  Hope that helps!
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Nope.  If there was no demand for beef or chicken, people would quit raising them and there would be very few of them around anymore.  You surely don't think they run around in huge wild herds, do you?
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Growth and change in their bodies
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I'm guessing you want to start a small home chicken farm?  If you aren't going to be using natural forage/organic stuff to raise your chickens, then you won't need the full four acres.  \n\nWe started with day-old chick incubating under a pickup cap.  As they grew, we moved the cap to the back of a low trailer in a small fenced in area near a fresh water spigot.  We later moved them into an old garbage shed and fenced area and located it in a spot convenient to the house, but far enough away to keep the smells away from the house.  (This spot was also near a water source.)  \n\nLater, we used a more substantial shed, fitted it with a closed in raised up chicken area with roosts, laying boxes, and wire floors.  It had a chicken run from outside so that they could go in and out with a door to close at night to keep foxes and racoons out.  It had a walkway inside the coop with access to the laying boxes and a walk-in doorway so that we could get inside to put fresh water and feed in twice or three times a day.  Eventually, we gave them free run and they served as lawn-weeding, bug-eating, garden-fertilizing, egg-laying lawn ornaments for several years.  \n\nYou'll need to plan more space if you intend to grow your own food, raise more chickens, free range, etc.  We started with 60 chickens, ate some, lost some, and ended up using 25 or so for eggs.  \n\nGood luck.  Chickens can be lots of fun! Beware the roosters, expecially around little children, although we had one that my daughter trained to ride her bicycle with her.  It would also go sledding with her in the backyard AND after sliding with it on the swingset slide, the rooster decided he enjoyed it so much we found him enjoying the slide at times all on his own.
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the bigger the better
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tuffy minnows the smaller the better\nalso try slow trolling a 2 inch white curl tail grub in likely areas