1000 Flowers for the Planet - #3 Keep your own Chickens
Chickens are SO much fun. When our daughter was a young teenager she bought four 21-month old laying hens from a battery farm. It was her way of rescuing them to give them a better life. Three months later she bought another four hens and we had eight hilarious chooks up the back yard. I can't recommend them highly enough. They are very entertaining and each chook has her own personality. Ours were rehabilitated very quickly and lived lives of luxury, pampered by our doting daughter. Of course, the benefits other than entertainment are glorious golden eggs to eat. They also give children a sense of responsibility when they are required to look after something other than themselves. Give them a go. I'd be surprised if you weren't well rewarded.
To read a bit about keeping chooks in your own back yard try:
| http://www.livinggreener.gov.au/waste/kitchen-food-waste/keeping-backyard-chickens |
1 comment:
Love the flowers Margaret. This one strikes a chord, as part of our back-yard renovation we're considering keeping chooks! We have a little old shed/cubby house that is going to be turned into a chook house, Tone's built a "chook run" behind the pergola - now it's a matter of training the dogs to know the chooks aren't dinner on legs!! haha.
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