After raising chickens for a year that’s one of the conclusions that Jennifer Pack at the Not Dabbling In Normal blog came to. She learned two big lessons:
1. Protect Your Edible Garden – If you are going to allow your chickens to free range, they are going to pick and eat at everything edible (and possibly non-edible) they can. Yes, they’ll eat bugs, ticks and weeds. That’s the good part. But they are also going to eat that garden you’ve worked so hard at watering, loving and talking to. So either keep the birds fenced in, or the garden fenced in. One or the other.
Like child-proofing your home…you need to chicken-proof your garden!
2. Fresh Eggs Make Up for All of the Destruction – Again, like kids…they can do so much damage and be so impossible, but at the end of the day, there are those moments like when they give you a hug or tell you that they love you, it sort of just makes up for everything else.
Are eggs a chicken’s way of saying: “I love you?”
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