I love keeping chickens. We have had our same four ladies for four years now. I know, I know--if I were a real farmer, they would have been transformed into a Sunday dinner long ago. I tried, but the kids won't go for it.
The problem is that you need to make the chickens pets if you actually want your kids to embrace them (literally) and the chores that go along with them. And I have to admit that I don’t really think that I could whack them. But I tried to be a good farmer and at least say that the chickens need to be sent to the big farm in the sky. They do still lay...maybe 3-5 eggs per week from March to October. They still poop and scratch and make good compost, plus they serve as my four feathered roto-tillers.
So, what do I do with my old ladies that we all love--and still make room for my three new chicks that will supply an even steadier supply of eggs? Well, I'm going to rent them out! Hens For Hire! We have outfitted a traveling dog carrier and fashioned a portable pen, so these four Clydesdales (sort of) are ready to hit the road. Have chickens will travel!
What can these four beautiful ladies do for your garden? Besides providing you with fresh eggs each week, they are great at prepping your veggie garden area for spring planting? Give me a call! You can have four busty beauties parading around your bed/s for one, or several days. I'm not jokin'!
We, my 11 year old who is trying to earn snowboarding money and I, will come and set them up at your house. You can keep them as long as you want. You just need to keep their food (we supply) and water full and click the door shut on the kennel each night and open each morning. Set up fee is $35 and it's $10 per day after 24 hours. Plus-you will get a couple of eggs out of the deal.
To eat down a garden bed that is 5' x 5' will take them 1-2 days-depending on how thick the vegetation is. In exchange they will each down your weeds and cover crop, eat bugs, scratch and thatch and poop the best fertilizer west of I-5.
So why did the chicken cross the road? To get to your house. Now that's sustainable!
