Chickens love scratching around the backyard and finding tasty plants, bugs and worms to eat. They are also beneficial for the garden as well with their manure. However, there are a few things to know before allowing your chickens to roam freely around your vegie patch and garden. Firstly, chickens are destructive to vegie patches…
Just like us, chickens need a range of vitamins and minerals to stay healthy and in peak performance. Metabolic processes, growing muscle or feathers, producing eggs, staying healthy or running around the backyard all require essential vitamins and minerals. One of the many advantages of a complete feed, whether it is a pellet, crumble or…
If you want to raise your own chicks then it is critical to ensure that they have the correct nutrition. This will set them up to become healthy and productive adults and allow you to get the most out of your flock. This is important regardless of whether you keep your flock as companions, like…