Chickens

Chicken

Caring For Chickens

Everyday check

Ø  Water

Ø  Refill food container

Ø  Put kitchen food scraps out for chickens

Ø  Collect eggs

Periodically check for:

Ø  Scaly leg mite

Ø  Lice and lice egg (around the vent and under the wing)

Ø  General health of chickens

Ø  Regularly change straw in nesting boxes

Information about Chickens

      Live for eight to fifteen years

      Need shelter

      Need nesting boxes (one for every five chickens) straw or non-treated wood shaving

      Need roosting perches

      Need fresh water daily

      Like fresh food such as corn, lettuce and bugs

      Like to bath in dust

      Food: mixed grains, pellets and mash (about one and a half cups each day)

      Need grit-used in place of teeth to grind food

      Clip feathers on one wing to stop them flying

      More chickens in the world than any other bird

      Colour of the ears shows what colour eggs they law

      Heaps of breeds kept for meat and eggs

This is one of our chickens: