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The Relaxed Farming Chickens: How to look after us
All about us
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Why keep chickens
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Fascinating facts
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How to look after us
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Our offspring
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Relaxed FarmingHow to look after us... (as answered by one of our Black Leghorns) I am the third of the Leghorn types, the others being Red and White. I am infact one of two - we are fab layers and probably the shyest of all the Leghorns...

  • Please protect us from predators: Read more

  • Provide a sturdy house with perches & nestboxes: Read more

  • We love our special pellets and mixed corn: Read more

  • Fresh water is needed all the time please: although some of will drink from puddles BUT if you think about it, puddles are full of rain water, and rain water is usually free of bugs and diseases...

    Having said that, once those ducks get their bills in a puddle, there is no knowing what it is full of then so fresh water in those plastic or metal drinkers is much appreciated. We drink quite a lot, especially in the summer when one of us may drink as much as 500ml!!

  • We need grit to grind up our food: Read more

  • Make sure we can have a dust bath: Read more

  • Please try to keep us healthy: Read more

Nice fresh water from a
clean plastic drinker or...

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...a muddy puddle?
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