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This is why we raise our heritage poultry in a nutshell. The value in raising your own heritage breed poultry is undeniable. Chickens are just plain fun to watch! I guarantee you that if you take a few minutes in the afternoon to sit out on your lawn chair and watch those little ladies dashing around your yard you'll forget you ever had a care in the world. Backyard chickens are the best stress relievers in the world. They also are a great way to meet your neighbors. Or as a matter of fact anyone else. As soon as people see you have chickens the conversation starts. I've always wanted to raise chickens, Look how cute they are! How many eggs are you getting? And so on and so on and they may even get some yard eggs out of the deal. Chickens also eat bugs. Now that might not sound so appetizing to you but they help keep down mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, crickets and other assorted creepy-buggies. They also go after your garden pests like grubs and earwigs. While they're scratching around looking for those bugs they're aerating your soil and breaking up larger pieces of vegetation to help the decomposition process along. Because backyard chickens eat all those bugs their eggs are loaded with proteins and nutrients that you definitely don't get with store bought eggs. Once you eat an egg from a yard bird you'll never eat store bought again. The yolks are a brighter yellow/orange color and much firmer. And because backyard chickens aren't raised on a bland diet of corn mash, their eggs are much tastier. Oh, and there's chicken poop. Yes, chickens do poop. And if you don't clean up the coop occasionally you're going to have a smelly mess on your hands. But chicken poop is full of nutrients so... clean out that coop and use it for garden fertilizer! I give it to my friends for their gardens too. There is an increasingly popular movement in this country to become self-sufficient and to Go Green. That doesn't only refer to energy consumption. It includes things like growing your own vegetables and fruits. Producing whatever you can at home. In the end, it does lead back to energy consumption in that the more we produce ourselves the less has to be transported around the country. I say hip hip hooray for chickens.
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