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Top 10 Reasons to Keep Backyard Chickens
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7. Lifestyle Choice
You will find that people who keep backyard chickens tend to be more self-sufficient than other people. They want to take more control of their lives and live in a more sustainable fashion. They most likely do other crafts, have their own vegetable garden, and have a positive outlook on life. Keeping chickens is a way of saying that you want to return to a more natural way of living and keep yourself more connected to the earth.
8. Chickens are the Original Recyclers
Chickens have been recycling trash into treasures since time immemorial. Give your backyard chickens your table scraps and old vegetables from your garden and they will turn that trash into eggs and meat. They will also give you plenty of fresh manure for your garden or compost pile.
9. Natural Pesticide
Allowing your chickens to walk freely in your yard and/or garden means no more chemical pesticides! Chickens live to eat bugs and they aren’t picky: grasshoppers, beetles, grubs, spiders, ticks, crickets, you name it and they’ll eat it. They’ll love to dig through your grass clippings too! If you have larger animals, such as goats, sheep, or horses, put a couple hens in their pens and maggots will be a thing of the past. They will remove every insect from a stable and look cute doing it.
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10. Comfort of Self Sufficiency
Chickens will offer you a sense of self sufficiency you can’t beat. You can raise your own meat and your own eggs for so many uses. Most people will run to the store to stock up on chicken or eggs when they know there will be a storm or a power outage, but you won’t have to do that. Should there be an emergency, you have an important food source right in your backyard.
There are dozens of websites that will tell you how to get started with chickens, how many birds you can have depending on the amount of space you can offer. With no grooming, no walking, no boarding, no poop pick up, no chewing on furniture or jumping on the neighbors, it’s easy to see that chickens are so simple to take care of, you will wonder why everyone doesn’t keep them.
