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Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Tractor Space

Add to backyard chicken farm is the fastest way to a healthy garden, organic, and a delicious way to make your home more self-sufficient.

Why Chickens are invaluable to self-sufficiency

In the thirties, during the Great Depression, stories abounded of terror on soup lines and people face starvation. But those who owned their own land, along with a dozen or more hens and roosters do not go hungry. That's because in a bad economy, those who can raise their own food are way ahead of the game. With a dozen for the chickens and a rooster have a constant supply eggs and meat.

I live in the city? You probably will not be able to keep a rooster, but most city ordinances will allow you to six hens. These lovely birds will supply two and a half dozen eggs per week.

Thank Your Organic Garden

Manure of his chickens or roosters is one of the most fertile substances of nature. Although you should never add the fertilizer directly to their land – the nitrogen is too strong and can burn plants – that makes things beautiful when you add to your compost pile.

Better yet, if a baby and some of the hay is gone moldy, add your chickens roosting box or brooder. The chickens do not mind, and when finished with it, that wonderful with mold, manure-Laden is launching its composting.

Great with children

Save for the occasional ornery rooster, these birds are gentle and safe around children. The little ones love the celebration of the chicks.

Easy to lift

Although they require some special care in the first two to three weeks of their lives, the chickens are – in general – easy care. All you need is a small shelter, fresh water and food every day. Feeders are one-gallon water available. Use these and you only need to provide water for your birds once a day.

On hot days, be sure to check your water at least twice a day. Chickens need plenty of water and do not drink hot water.

Raise Your Own eggs, improve your health

A survey by Mother Earth News revealed that the chickens – in particular those who live in chicken tractors moved a day – are up to one third less cholesterol and less than one quarter saturated fat than commercially raised eggs. They also have more vitamin A and a lot more omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin E and beta carotene than their commercial counterparts.

Free range birds eat more of the diet that was supposed to have – lots of green leafy vegetables, insects and worms. They enjoy their life, my birds love it when I move around on his tractor. Every day he receives a new supply of grass to zero! For birds reared on the other hand, spend all their lives crowded into the same space small, dark, dirty. Eating a diet of soy, cottonseed and corn with additives thrown in.

This atmosphere of stress can cause ill so they are also given antibiotics to prevent them from dying too early. You and your family eat antibiotics when they eat their eggs. Additionally, you are stressed eating eggs, potentially sick birds.

With its own range of birds, which is providing a more friendly environment for their players and better nutrition for your family.

Fresh, clean meat

Naturally, the same applies to birds raised for meat. Less stress and without antibiotics. Furthermore, the meat will be cleaner. Chickens killed processed and marketed are uprooted and thrown into a large water Cuba warm until ready to be cut. A large amount of fecal matter accumulates in the VAT. The chicks are literally in the kitchen "fecal soup". Feces soaks into the flesh of birds and is in the liquid that comes in the package. The butcher of his own birds, you eliminate the "fecal soup". Therefore, cleaner of meat.

Eggs are a Simple Rent

Everyone loves the fresh eggs, so they are easy to sell. Keeping a few hens to produce extra eggs than you and your family can eat. Sell the surplus, and within a year, will regain its implementation and feed costs. Continue to sell their extra eggs, and the next year, will free eggs and win a little more income.

Sue Merriam is author of the website, Organic Gardening and Homesteading. http://www.organic-gardening-and-homesteading.com