Backyard Shamo Chicken Breeding: Tips for Summer Success

Summer Chicken Breeding Season

• ☀️ The video highlights the start of the breeding season for native chickens, emphasizing the importance of a good environment, especially during warm summer months.
• 🌧️ Recent rain has brought freshness, but the overall temperature has been very warm, making summer breeding intensive.

Breeding Pen Management and Nutrition

• 🎯 Chickens are placed in a breeding pen and conditioned with specific food, including costly A1 breeder pellets, to ensure fertile eggs.
• 🥚 The speaker inspects nest boxes for eggs, noting that some eggs are almost ready to hatch.
• 🍳 Eggs are checked for viability by gently shaking them, a method used on the farm to distinguish good eggs from non-viable ones.

Egg Harvesting and Incubation Decisions

• 🧺 A large number of eggs (over a dozen) were found scattered in the breeding pen because the chickens lacked proper nesting boxes (pugaran).
• 🍳 These scattered eggs are deemed unsuitable for incubation due to a failure in conditioning the hens, and are instead harvested for breakfast.
• 🐔 The native hen eggs are described as more delicious and nutrient-rich than broiler chicken eggs, which are produced using layer pellets and are not considered as natural.

Shamo Chicken Characteristics and Roosters

• 🐓 The Shamo chicken breed is featured, with a notable rooster weighing around 4 kilos.
• 🤝 Roosters are observed to coexist peacefully because they have grown together since they were young, a behavior compared to fighting fish.
• 🧬 The chickens are a mixed breed of Shamo and Sanam, known for being good breeders and standing tall.

Chick Rearing and Health Management

• 🌱 Chicks are thriving and feeding on a mixture of seeds and azolla, which helps reduce feed consumption.
• 🏥 A secluded facility is used for intensive care of small chicks, including bantam chickens, with over 50 chicks expected to hatch soon.
• 💊 Deworming is done every three months for caged chickens, less frequently than for free-ranging chickens that scavenge for food.

Farming as a Passion

• ❤️ The speaker expresses deep enjoyment and contentment with their life on the farm, viewing the chickens as inspiration.
• 💡 The video concludes with encouragement to nurture desires and take simple steps to achieve them, emphasizing the importance of keeping passion alive.