How To Keep Chickens In Your Backyard
If you have more than 3 chickens in your backyard you ll have to adjust your schedule accordingly.
How to keep chickens in your backyard. Pip and natalie taylor have been keeping chickens in their canberra backyard for more than four years. Keeping chickens is the perfect way to have a fresh supply of delicious and nutritious eggs at your fingertips whether you prefer your eggs to be poached fried or scrambled you ll never be short of these protein packed ingredients if you decide that keeping chickens is right for you. Well unless some mad scientist crosses a dog with a chicken and we get an egg laying non barking dog.
Once you have the coop in place line its floor with a bedding material like straw hay or pine shavings to make cleaning up easier. They re great as part of the backyard garden ecosystem ms taylor said. Apart from providing more eggs than the average person can eat they will rid your backyard of insects and snails keep your grass and weeds down turn over your soil and supply you the best fertilizer possible for your vegetable patch.
10 minutes from the entire day 1. Open up the chickens in the morning. To keep chickens in a backyard you ll need to either buy a premade chicken coop or make one yourself.
Chickens are escape artists too but i think more importantly you would want a fence to keep predators from going after your chickens.
