Chicken as pets
Keeping hens as pets is both entertaining and beneficial. Chickens are easy to tame, aren't overly noisy (as long as you don't have a rooster), aren't dirty, and usually are extremely healthy if you keep their home clean. Instead of a dusty, unkempt barnyard, you can have a tidy, attractive hen house in your own backyard. Most pet stores and hardware stores sell a kit or ready-made hen house.
Your garden will benefit from having chickens. They scrape at weeds and eat garden pests like snails. They are beneficial for fertilizing your vegetables, but make sure to compost the fertilizer first. It may be too strong when it's brand new. Any food scraps that the hens don't eat can be composted as well.
Chickens enjoy fresh fruit and vegetable scraps, crusts, and other leftovers, but don't feed them orange peel because they won't eat it. Be careful to wipe up any food scraps they don't eat because they're ugly and attract pests. It's essential to do a quick clean-up each day before nightfall. It only takes a minute each day to rake and shovel into the compost bin, and you'll have a nice clean chicken coop. Chickens, on the whole, are relatively healthy and live for around ten years. Except during the winter, they lay every day.
Chickens may live off the garden waste and food scraps, but they should be supplemented with vitamins and minerals. Buying some layers of pellets is the most straightforward approach to feed them properly. Chicken pellets made explicitly for laying chickens contain all of the essential nutrients for healthy egg-producing birds. You'll want your hens to be in top shape because their eggs will be in top condition. You'll benefit from the highest-quality and best-tasting eggs you've ever had. A happy, well-fed backyard pet chicken has a distinct flavor from a battery hen raised in a cage.
When you first break open an egg from your chickens, the yolk will likely be a deep golden color. This is due to the nutritious fresh greens that your chickens consume. Because battery hens are solely fed pellets, their eggs lack natural vitamins. They get all of their vitamins from pellets. Fresh eggs taste the best, and you won't find any fresher than one from your own hens every day.
The eggs will not be fertilized if you don't have a rooster. They will never create a baby chicken as a result of this. Some kids despise the idea of robbing a mother hen of her children. You may confidently explain that the eggs will never have chickens, and your children will be able to enjoy their hens' gifts.
Chickens may not be as intelligent as dogs or cats, but they may be sociable. They prefer routine, so if you feed them and clean their house at the same time every day, they will appreciate your company as long as you are not too loud or make sudden motions. They'll come running as soon as they notice you with their feeding bowl. They will 'assist' you if you enjoy gardening by sifting through newly weeded or turned earth for insects and snails. It's interesting to listen to them talk as they claw through the dirt.
