Why


should I keep chickens?


here are many reasons why someone would like to keep chickens.


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You dream of those great tasting eggs, or you may just love being around those beautiful animals.


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Another reason is that chickens are a lot of fun. They are friendly birds, undemanding and easy to keep.


If you spend some time with them will soon learn to accept you, they will even come to you when called and may let you pick them up and pet them.


There are over 75 breeds of chickens. Some will lay more eggs, some will have better temperaments, some will be more weather resistant and the bigger the chicken or bantam the bigger the eggs produced (cockerels excepted).


Continuing to supply quality Guinea Fowl, Barbury Ducks, Aylesbury type & Novogen day olds & POL


Chickens need shelter from the weather, a light airy run during the


day, an enclosed roost at night and protection from various predators at all times.


All you need is enough space for an ark. Chickens restricted to a moveable ark are perfectly content, you always know where they are, their food is not eaten by wild birds and they are safe from predators.


Keeping the ark on a small piece of land is not a problem if you move it regularly as the scratching they do and the droppings left behind may even do it good.


Do not forget that cockerels will crow in the mornings. Females however make very little noise and produce all the eggs.


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Hendra Farm is known throughout the region for its reputation in breeding top class stock, and for producing many successes in the show ring.


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They also run a thriving poultry business providing quality, outdoor reared birds, and a first class service, to their customers across Devon and Cornwall.


Hendra Farm sell only the finest free range hybrid pullets (young hens), at point of lay.


They are specifically bred for their superior egg laying abilities, with consistent shell quality and colour.


All the breeds have extremely amenable temperaments and are very hardy to the vagaries of the British climate, which make them ideally suited to keeping free range.


Hendra Farm can also supply table geese, turkeys, laying ducks, Coturnix quail and Rheas.


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