Easy Ways to Start Raising Chickens in Your Backyard
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You are ready to start raising chickens how do you get them?
One of the easiest things you can do to begin your journey to becoming self sufficient and self reliant is keep a few egg laying chickens in your backyard.
When you are ready to start raising chickens, how do you start?
Where do you get chickens?
Do you buy hatching eggs? Or day old chicks? Or get pullets? Maybe start with chickens already laying eggs?
Yep, you can buy chickens at several stages in their development. It kind of depends on what’s available to you, or it depends on how long you’re willing to take care of chickens before they start laying eggs.
If you have an incubator or you can borrow one from a friend, you can hatch your own eggs. It is pretty interesting to watch the chicks break out of their eggs. Watching them hatch never gets old.
Day-old chicks are probably the most common method for getting chickens to start a new flock. Many breeds, varieties, are available from hatcheries. In the Spring local stores, your farm supply stores, usually have chick days. They might not have a big selection of chicks like a hatchery, but you are getting them locally saving you the shipping costs and making sure someone is available to drive to your Post Office to pick them up.
Pullets are female chickens about sixteen to twenty weeks old. Depending on the chicken, most start laying eggs around five to six months old, maybe twenty two to twenty six weeks old. If you don’t want to wait for eggs or set up a brooder with heat lamp and special feed to be able to care for day old chicks, pullets might be your best option.
And then there are mature laying hens. It’s pretty rare for someone to be selling hens in their peak egg laying years. But it does happen.
Chickens come in two sizes. Full sized regular chickens and smaller sized chickens often called bantams. Bantams are easier to keep when your space is limited. They do lay smaller eggs that taste just the same as their larger cousins eggs. Something to think about.
If you have any questions about keeping chickens in your backyard, ask.
If you have a friend that might be interested in raising chickens share this video with them.
Raising chickens is easy. They pretty much take care of themselves all you have to do is give them clean water and feed them. Do you have a pet that helps with breakfast?
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