Feb
11
2012
How To Plan Retirement
How To Build A Chicken Coop by Dave Summers
Chickens have been around for about 5000 years and more and more people are starting to keep them than ever before. They are being kept as pets and as a source of one of the most nutritious foods on the planet – eggs! Chickens usually stay egg-productive for about 5 years. Intensively bred battery hens are only use for production for about 2 years and then disposed of. However, many people are now adopting the ex-battery hens and, apart from giving them a more comfortable “retirement home”, we are rewarded by being given freshly laid, nutritional eggs. There are many advantages to raising poultry such as:
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