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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: Read more

  • We need grit to grind up our food: we don't have teeth like the geese and mammals on the smallholding so we need to eat grit to help grind up our food.

    What happens is this: we eat all day and the food ends up in a pouch at the end of our oesophagus (the oesophagus is a tube that is connected to our throat). The pouch is called a crop and in here the food gets a bit softened before travelling down into our gizzard where it is ground down by bits of grit.

    After this stage the food goes into our intestines where we take all the goodness we need from it and poo out the rest!!! (just like humans!!). We find a lot of grit as we roam around the smallholding but our owners still put out a tray of grit for us just in case!!!

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

  • Please try to keep us healthy: Read more

 You can put grit straight into the food
(or in a separate container)...
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...or we can find it ourselves as we free range
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