Caring for Chicks in our Garden

Chickens are really attractive additions to any garden.

They can help with recycling and garden maintenance and can clean up colonies of insects.

They make great pets and can warn you of intruders by the noise they make.

They also scratch, aerate and fertilize the soil as well as produce eggs.

They eat pests and bugs and consider plants we call weeds to be delicacies. weeds

Chicks can also provide an income for us if we sell the eggs.

In return for all this, we need to protect our chickens and look after their needs.

Chicks need a clean area with access to shade and sunlight and a place to scratch and forage for food.

Chicks need a hen house to protect them from predators at night.

A perch should be available for roosting.

Chicks need food and water daily. They enjoy small garden worms, dinner scraps and vegetable peelings. watererwormsscraps

They also like to eat ‘chick crumble’ from the pet store, grain, seeds, fruit, lettuce, toast and cress. cress lettuce grain seeds toastfruit

They can be fun and pay their own way as well.

We need to look after our chicks so we can enjoy many happy and productive years with them.