Keeping Happy, Healthy, Egg Laying Chickens In Your Own Backyard

Keeping Happy, Healthy, Egg Laying Chickens In Your Own Backyard”Chickens are naturally curious animals. They tend to investigate everything they can, not just with sight but also with their beaks which is why they peck at everything. They also have a very strong sense of who's part of the flock and who is not which is why bullying can happen, especially when a new bird is introduced. There are many advantages to keeping happy, healthy, egg laying chickens in your own backyard. Take for instance feeding and raising chickens when compared to raising and feeding a dog or cat. Chicken feed is a lot cheaper. Chickens can also be fed table scraps as treats, further reducing feed cost and also recycling.Once you have eaten a great tasting, nutritious egg produced by one of your backyard chickens, there is no going back. Research shows that keeping chickens that are allowed to roam freely and eat grass, lay eggs that are higher in Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E and at the same time lower cholesterol than eggs from the supermarket - making home produced eggs healthier. Depending on the type of chicken, the eggs may be many different colors, including green, speckled, white, or brown.Chickens are hard workers and really earn their keep. Besides laying great tasting nutritious eggs, your chickens will provide you with one of the best fertilizers on earth! Say farewell to expensive fertilizer from the garden centre. They love to eat bugs that bite you such as mosquitoes and ticks as well as the bugs that harm your plants like slugs.Keeping happy, healthy, egg laying chickens in your own backyard - you will have to have a place for them to roost. There are different types of chicken coop or chicken house. The major things to look for in a chicken coop are: Size - does the coop hold as many chickens as you need it to? Ease of use - it’s a real bonus if you can stand up in the run to catch the chickens. You also need it to be easy to keep clean. However, the larger the amount of space you give them, the happier they will be.Keeping happy, healthy, egg laying chickens in your own backyard make great pets. If they are handled by children from a young age, chickens can be very friendly and cuddly. Young children can handle the responsibilities of caring for the chickens with just five minutes in the morning and again in the afternoon. They are an inexpensive investment and they earn their keep by providing eggs. Chickens are hard workers, handling composting, fertilizing, weed control, and bug control in my yard. “Chickens do all my work for me.

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