My yard chickens are smarter than most people. Honestly, they can figure out how to get away, and they know their place in the pecking order.
IL even have a rooster that adopted an orphan chick who was abandoned because he was the last one to hatch. He kept him warm at night for the3 first...
Each ils individual spirit, beautiful to look up and each one of them has his or her own unique energy and life spirit dwelling temporarily within their feathered bodies.
Here are the ten reasons I raise them, the most important of which are the first and the last.
1. I love them...
Don't risk it!
I just bought a big plastic container of cedar chips intending to use it in the chickens' nesting boxes but I got a sniff of the cedar and recalled how all my hamsters died when I used a chips with that smell in their cage. They died in a matter of hours after they knocked a...