6 Factors to Consider Before Raising Chickens

When you have decided to raise chickens for fun or profit or both there are some questions you may need to consider before starting off in the chicken raising business. You will need to consider your goals and know what to look forward to or look out for.1. What is your neighborhood like and is it properly zoned to raise chickens and what impact if any will it have on your neighbors? There is nothing worse than an angry neighbor because your new hobby has affected their living conditions.2. What type of chickens will you be raising and what are your goals for them? Will you be selling the eggs or just keeping them for your own consuming? Or perhaps you are thinking of raising show birds?3. What type of housing will you be providing for them? Are you going to get some chicken coop blueprints or plans and build your own or are you going to buy a pre made unit?4. Do you have small children in your family because they will want to interact with the chickens and they need to be aware of what they can and cannot do around the chickens.5. Do you live in an area where predators could be a factor or does the neighbor have a dog that can ruin your raising chickens idea?6. What type of chicken coop design do you want? This is an important one because if you are going to want to get inside to clean and gather eggs it needs to be large enough to move around easily. Also the size will reflect as to how many chickens you will be able to have on hand at any time.Raising chickens can be very rewarding as a hobby or even as a business if you do the proper research and provide the proper shelter that is helpful for you and provides an adequate shelter for your chickens.If you are handy and have basic carpentry skills you can build your own chicken coop to your own design specifications all that is necessary is to have a good set of chicken coop plans and the space to build it.

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