My husband and I are going to start keeping chickens this year. Do you have any advice for someone new to chickens?
Mix your own feed.
Clean water = healthy birds, have multiple water locations.
Prepare a lot of mulch to give them as bedding.
Prepare another mulch pile for them to dig around in for bugs & worms but importantly, to dump their dirty water & to clean their feeders & waterers. You don't want mud & broken down mulch which birds have lived on makes for potent garden compost!
Electric fencing from premier 1 the heavy duty double pronged, got a speedrite solar energizer bc @rafa told me to 🫡.
Clean water = healthy birds, have multiple water locations.
Prepare a lot of mulch to give them as bedding.
Prepare another mulch pile for them to dig around in for bugs & worms but importantly, to dump their dirty water & to clean their feeders & waterers. You don't want mud & broken down mulch which birds have lived on makes for potent garden compost!
Electric fencing from premier 1 the heavy duty double pronged, got a speedrite solar energizer bc @rafa told me to 🫡.
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