Great Eggspectations? by Rus & Slater

Author:Rus & Slater
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Chickens, poultry, hens, eggs, keeping chickens, chickens as pets, coops, runs, chicken run, good life, sustainability, protein, suburban, chicken little, kfc, foghorn leghorn, robot chicken, rooster, feathers mcgraw, egg, yolk, chick, easter, johnny depp
ISBN: 9781781660157
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2011
Published: 2011-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

Space

Chickens don’t actually take up lots of space...notwithstanding what has been said above about chickens v pretty or productive gardens. My little flock of seven hens live half the year in an aviary which is 8 foot by 10 foot and six feet high with the coop (about 4 foot by 4 foot) attached on the outside. This is more than enough space for them.

(In fact when I first told my 88 year old mum that I’d bought chickens she told me that I was following in her father’s footsteps....I was agog (I never met him he died long before I was born), he and the family of eight lived in a small terraced house in Battersea in London. It transpired that though the back yard was only about 20 feet by 15 feet he kept chickens and rabbits and ducks there....eggs, fur and meat all in Thessaly Road, Battersea.)

A chicken may not be the Brain of Britain but their life is pretty boring if you don’t give them some challenges in life. If you have the space it is good to let the chickens free-range to scratch in fresh areas, it is also good to provide them with a few roosting perches off the floor; a couple of posts and a crossbar is all that is needed.

A sand bath or dust bath allows them to get a good cleaning scratch session going, just a big bowl of play sand or even wood ash suffices, in fact a large flower tub full of dry compost has also been found to make their little lives heaven (if you don’t provide them with a sand bath they’ll dig their own wherever the mood takes them!)

Some shelter from sun or rain is also a good idea, whether it is a tree, a sun umbrella or similar..or even underneath their house.

Have you got enough space to give your chickens a decent life chickens?

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