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Hi,
Well I have just done something fairly stupid. Quite a few weeks ago we took the kids to a working farm. Little girl held a baby chick which she a bit nervous about, think she was worried she might hurt it, then she held a slightly bigger one. She was confident about holding it and thought it was the funniest thing ever when it pooed on her.
She quite likes reading my magazine especially the last pages about the bees and the chickens.
Well since then she has asked about having chickens. I have said if she saves up her money then I'll ask our landlord wether we can have some or not.
So I'm just wondering so she realises how much she is going to have to save is:-
What breed would you recommend?
Would be looking at two or three chickens.
What sort of housing and run would you recommend?
Have told her it wont be til next year as we go away in August and the chickens can't be left alone. I know she wont of save her money up yet but I think she needs to know that chickens cost time, money and she needs to be responsible for them.
Chickens aren't my main problem. Little boy wants a tortoise.
Well I have just done something fairly stupid. Quite a few weeks ago we took the kids to a working farm. Little girl held a baby chick which she a bit nervous about, think she was worried she might hurt it, then she held a slightly bigger one. She was confident about holding it and thought it was the funniest thing ever when it pooed on her.
She quite likes reading my magazine especially the last pages about the bees and the chickens.
Well since then she has asked about having chickens. I have said if she saves up her money then I'll ask our landlord wether we can have some or not.
So I'm just wondering so she realises how much she is going to have to save is:-
What breed would you recommend?
Would be looking at two or three chickens.
What sort of housing and run would you recommend?
Have told her it wont be til next year as we go away in August and the chickens can't be left alone. I know she wont of save her money up yet but I think she needs to know that chickens cost time, money and she needs to be responsible for them.
Chickens aren't my main problem. Little boy wants a tortoise.
( maybe that's just me). You should never have only 2 chickens because if one dies you have a lonely chicken and as they are sociable birds this would be very unfair. If you do get more birds in the future never introduce just one, sociable they may be but they don't like new comers very much and pick on them, so introduce 2 minimum.
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