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Choose a commercial chicken feed that has been formulated tailored toward the specific needs of the chickens you’re raising. Consult the feed bag label to determine which growth stage it is intended for. If the label does not provide this information, you may be able to decipher its purpose by analyzing the protein percentages in the feed.

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According to an article in the Mother Earth News, most of the eggs currently sold in supermarkets are nutritionally inferior to eggs produced by hens raised on pasture.

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Eggs
Consider this: everything a chicken eats goes into producing an egg, right? When you purchase a carton of eggs from the supermarket, do know what went into the making of those eggs? If your chickens are fed nothing but good quality chicken food and your own table scraps, you will have tasty, nutritious eggs for your plate. Also, by letting your chickens run free during the day, (in some urban areas this may not be appropriate) you will find they will mostly be able to feed themselves.
Another bonus of a backyard chicken coop is if you are a gardener. Think about it! There will be a weekly allotment of fresh, free manure for your garden.

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Chickens are one of the more popular species of backyard poultry to raise—more popular than raising ducks and raising geese, combined! People raise chickens in a variety of settings, both urban and rural, and for a variety of reasons. Join the urban chicken revolution and learn just how easy it is to get started in the chicken hobby!

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The new “all vegetarian” chicken is a convenience to the mass-producer, who thus doesn’t have to worry about the potential of latent animal diseases in poultry feed…[b]ut, strictly vegetarian-fed chickens are potentially undernourished. An all-vegetarian diet is not natural for them ~ they need animal protein. The ideal is for a chicken to be free to roam grasslands that are not denuded by too many animals in one place, finding myriad bugs and eating lots of wild plants. If supplemented with grains, and especially with fish meal, these chickens will be the healthiest around, and live and lay eggs for many, many years.

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For a subject as mundane as the art of feeding chickens, the topic exhibits a surprising level of controversy. Some individuals choose to mix their own chicken feed, arguing that homemade chicken feed is healthier for feeding chickens. Other backyard poultry enthusiasts disagree, insisting that only commercial produced feed mixes can offer the proper nutrient mixes for backyard flocks. There are even proponents of vegetarian chicken diets, and those who disagree

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If you like the thought of waking up to a breakfast of freshly laid, free-range eggs at a fraction of the cost and inconvenience of traveling to the nearest store to buy some, then building a backyard chicken coop and hosting your own egg laying team could be just the thing for you. Join the increasing number of families across the country who are doing just that.

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