Chickens Are Nesting Everywhere You Look! | Chicken Coop Fencing Ideas
Chickens Are Nesting Everywhere You Look!
Increasingly, people are fed up with their lack of control over the food they eat and the sad state of affairs so far as Americas food supply is concerned. Everywhere you turn, youll find people growing big gardens, grinding their own wheat to bake their own bread, and raising their own small game such as rabbits, poultry and goats. Lost arts such as canning and chicken plucking are being rediscovered as more families begin to take back control over the food they eat.
One increasingly common sight that is popping up in even suburban backyards all around the country are backyard chicken coops. Even upscale townships have bowed to the pressure of the citizenry and are permitting people to own a few chickens. The gift of fresh eggs has a way of making friends, even on the city council! Some communities even promote community backyard chicken coop tours!
Chickens have relatively simple needs, and provide a great deal of inexpensive entertainment for families with children. Chickens need a continuous supply of fresh water, and a regular diet of specially mixed food that will ensure all of their dietary needs are met. Many varieties of chicken feed are corn based, and have additional grains and nutrients blended into the base.
If allowed to run free, chickens will scratch the ground and eat ticks, bugs and even little snakes, but they must be protected from owls, hawks and four legged predators that would appreciate a chicken dinner. They like to roost off the ground at night, close together, and they appreciate a soft, nested place in which to lay their eggs. Normally if you provide such a place, they will use it, but chickens that free range and are not provided with an egg nest will frequently resort to hiding their eggs in the brush.
Chicken Coop Plans abound on the Internet on sites such as Building Chicken Coops. Half the fun of having chickens is the pleasure of choosing and/or building where they will live. Chicken House Plans can be as simple or as elaborate as you like. Although there are certainly not commonplace, there have even been Backyard Chicken Coop Plans that allowed for the installation of running water, heat and air!
While these amenities, by most chickens standards, are a luxury, you will appreciate the installation of a light socket, for this will permit you a way to give the chickens light during the winter months, which in turn extends their laying capability, and its also useful for those times when you need electricity to make small repairs.
Chickens Are Nesting Everywhere You Look!
