Consider Building A Chicken House, Keeping Chickens And Keeping The Family Happy.

You know that your kids are desperate for a pet. Cats claw at the furniture, dogs bark and annoy the neighbours and poop in the most annoying places as well. But have you considered keeping chickens?

There’s a whole host of reasons why chickens make wonderful pets. They don’t bark, and provided you don’t buy a rooster the neighbours won’t complain about the noise. They don’t smell and they don’t dig holes under the fence. They’re cheap to feed, need very little work and are fun day at around. Kids just love chickens, mine spend hours playing with them.

And on top of that you have an added bonus. Eggs.

Lots of people never think about getting chickens as a pet when it comes to choosing a pet for the kids. As long as your council allows you to keep chickens it’s well worth considering. But there are some things to think about before you rush out and buy your hens. You need a good chicken house to house your chickens.

The henhouse needn’t be enormous. If you only have 3 or 4 hens then a modest size henhouse will house them admirably provided it has a nesting area and rungs for them to roost on at night.

A simple henhouse is relatively easy to build. Some treated timber suitable for outdoor use, some wire mesh and some material to cover parts of the chicken house where the chickens can have some shelter from the weather and you can get started with a hammer and nails. They will need a nesting area as well as some horizontal rungs to roost on at night.

And a small henhouse for 3 or 4 hens, if you add wheels one end and handles the other, can be moved around the garden so that the chicken droppings can fertilise the lawn in different spots from time to time. And there’s no reason chickens can’t free range around the garden during the day.

If the kids want chickens as pets then get them involved with you building a chicken house . It’s a great handyman project for you to do with the kids on the weekend. You should find plans to get houses on the Internet and it’s not particularly expensive or difficult to do.

So if you’ve been looking for a solution to being pestered by the kids for pets consider chickens. It’s a good way to you to show the kids how well you can build a chicken house, and you’ll have happy kids, happy chickens and lots of eggs for dinner if you do.

Then find yourself a good recipe book, learn how to make omelettes or soufflé, cook up a fine dinner for the family and you’ll be a hero.

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