Here are my five top reasons to keep chickens! Keeping chickens is easy but here are some more good reasons why you should keep these wonderful birds.
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Salmonella? What did you expect from something that comes out of a chicken ass hole? 4:21
Hey Mark, I love you line.
Regarding eating to much pumpkins and becomes like pumpkins. Super funny buddy.
Here in USA all peoples eat lots of cheese burgers and they all looked like hamburger themselves.
It's my dream to have some chickens and cows 🙂 And a cute little garden where I can grow veggies and fruits
Easy composting. Instead of a compost pile just give it all to the chickens. What they don’t eat is ground up fine into the dirt.
Do you buy chiquens food ?
Calcium in your garden
I love the way you treat them. These hens are so lucky to be with you.
I love having chickens! Such an easy animal to raise. Love the fresh eggs. I have mine trained to come when I call them. I keep a few different breeds. I think they are interesting to watch.
We had a problem with ticks entill we got chickens sence then we haven't had ticks
How about the economic advantage.
Chickens are some of my best friends and the best part is that mine are only a call away and that’s a call from my back door. I love my 7 hens and one rooster ♥️
This is something I don't get. Do you need a rooster to have hens to lay eggs?
#6 reason
Chickens…A rooster guards his human flock too! It never fails….I am alerted from time to time by my rooster while sleeping. Although he typically crows around midnight and again about 4:30 a.m. (I sleep right through it) at any other time, I will get up and check things out.
Opossum 7 out of 10 times.
I love my chickens, I have just restarted again there about 18 weeks old and got my first egg three days ago so excited I have three now just waiting for the others to start laying ..
I don't eat my chickens, but they are available and regenerative if the food supply chain had issues. That's one of the main reasons I keep a rooster around.
One of my hens is incredibly intelligent, can do an agility course like a dog. They definitely like space and variety in life
6. Eating them.
You are so good at what you do
You're a good man! Thank you sir!
We had to put nets all over the free run of our henns, because of birds of prey. However, one of the henns flys over the fence and walks around the rest of the garden. Henns are definitly very cute to watch and I am for sure going to keep henns for a long time.
We have 4 hens now I just started incubating 12 more fertile eggs
My hens are spoiled they get a wide variety of food
There are only two of us, so we are considering raising meat birds versus egg layers. From what I have read, they take about eight weeks to reach maturity. Do you have any recommendations for doing this? Thanks!
Reason #6 …the pleasure of caring for another living thing.
What about human manure? Can you use that as a fertiliser? I use my own urine at the garden and it makes my plants twice as big. But i don't know if i could use my own poop to enrich the soil.
A pack of 5 wild dogs killed 40 chicken in a matter to two days 2ed day attack cost them they're lives.
TAKE CHICKES TO MARS. LOL Chickens would be far easier to keep then Tilapia fish. You wouldn't have food for every day but if done correctly 5 or 7 times a month. The ship heading for America had chickens and some one ate well. Chicken poo can be used in gardens hydroponic or dirt. Chickens survived months and months on board ships
I would have moved reason #5 up to #1. I love my girls and really enjoy my daily time with them.