But I do have some tips to minimise the workload and fit them into your busy life without them becoming a burden.
Friday, 24 July 2015
Keeping Chickens - Feeding and Maintenance
This blog is the second part of my chicken series and focuses on what to do with your chickens when you bring them home and they are safely in your coop.
It's not very complicated though - in short make sure they have food and water and clean the coop regularly.
But I do have some tips to minimise the workload and fit them into your busy life without them becoming a burden.
But I do have some tips to minimise the workload and fit them into your busy life without them becoming a burden.
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Keeping Chickens - The Coop
Shortly after I got married my wife made a joke one evening that we should get chickens. That weekend we had an old aviary filled with four chickens. We've now had them for almost 7 years (on our 4th group now) and we've rarely been without chickens.
Collecting your own eggs is extremely satisfying and the golden yoke that oozes out of a freshly poached egg can not be beaten, Together with some freshly cut spinach from the veggie patch sauteed with some of our own garlic over a piece of toast is now a regular weekend breakfast. Not your average breakfast!
So I would like to share some of my learning's about keeping chickens and managing them in an efficient way so that they are relatively low maintenance.
It all starts with the coop which if set up right will make life much easier for you and make for happy chickens. This blog entry focuses on the coop itself which provides shelter and safety for them. I will do another entry that will focus on managing the chickens and a final entry might happen in a few months when we need to change them for some new ones. The reality here is that the chickens need to be killed and cleaned and I will go through that with you as well.
But for now my current lot of chickens are still laying productively so they will be spared for a bit longer.
I designed and built this chicken coop myself and while there are plenty of designs out there - some very impressive chicken palaces as well - this blog entry will focus on the logic behind some of the design features.
Collecting your own eggs is extremely satisfying and the golden yoke that oozes out of a freshly poached egg can not be beaten, Together with some freshly cut spinach from the veggie patch sauteed with some of our own garlic over a piece of toast is now a regular weekend breakfast. Not your average breakfast!
So I would like to share some of my learning's about keeping chickens and managing them in an efficient way so that they are relatively low maintenance.
It all starts with the coop which if set up right will make life much easier for you and make for happy chickens. This blog entry focuses on the coop itself which provides shelter and safety for them. I will do another entry that will focus on managing the chickens and a final entry might happen in a few months when we need to change them for some new ones. The reality here is that the chickens need to be killed and cleaned and I will go through that with you as well.
But for now my current lot of chickens are still laying productively so they will be spared for a bit longer.
I designed and built this chicken coop myself and while there are plenty of designs out there - some very impressive chicken palaces as well - this blog entry will focus on the logic behind some of the design features.
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