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Develop your garden.
Livestock Gardens
Keeping any form of livestock requires careful consideration. You must ensure that your garden or plot of land will adequately meet the needs of the animals you are planning to keep.
There are many choices, some of the more usual are chickens, hens, goats, and rabbits. The following brief guides are design to help get an understanding of the basic upkeep and care requirements for your livestock gardening plans.
You should also seek professional advice from suppliers in your local area, they will be able to help you with any specific questions that you may have.
Keeping Chickens
Chickens are pretty easy to look after, you only need to provide a basic form of shelter for them, and the benefits are well worth while. Chickens will provide you with fine fertilizer, and fresh eggs. You only need to have a few hens and a single cockerel and the flock will increase in size on a regular basis, if you let it. Of course the other benefit of keeping chickens is that they themselves are a food source.
Dependant on the size of garden or land you have available, your flock should be kept in check, not out-growing the space.
A small flock of 10 to 15 birds should ensure a regular egg laying pattern, and should be a manageable group for a smallish plot of land. Chickens feel safer when they are in a flock, and in theory the more birds the more beneficial the results.
A hen coop can just be a basic shed, with suitable ventilation, and safety netting to create a run, or small enclosure for the birds. This will prevent escape, and also provide them with protection from any would be predators.
You should be able to find a local farm (if you live in a suitable area) that will have a flock of chickens, which they will occasionally sell some of the birds from. It is worth taking the time to talk about your plans, as they will be able to offer you some good advice about the basic requirements.
Feed, shelter, care and general maintenance are all fairly simple, but different locations, breeds and flock size will all be factors that you will need to consider. Locally sort advice is the best method to gain knowledge in this respect.
