Not to discredit dogs, cats and all your other beloved pets but chickens are truly the best animals to keep! Here are some reasons why,
- Chickens take all the crap in your house and turn it into food and fertilizer!
Literally, they will eat grubs, mosquitos, earwigs and even mice sometimes and turn it into nutritious pods of golden yolk. This can be supplemented with kitchen scraps, preventing food waste. Although this may not sound all that appetizing, this is the diet of a healthy chicken, not some chicken feed produced in a factory where they put equally unappetizing ingredients in the food.
Chickens not only turn your pests and leftover dinner into eggs, but also fertilizer for your garden. Their poop is extremely rich in nitrogen, the main ingredient in most fertilizers, except that their’s is natural.
2. Chickens are low maintainance
That dog you bought? Chickens are less than half the amount of work. You don’t need to walk, potty train or feed them twice a day. Instead, all you need is a sturdy coop, a feeder and waterer to leave out for them and that’s it! They are not noisy unlike ducks and will return back to their coop after a day of free ranging.
3. It’s like a pet dinosaur (in a cute and feathery way)!
Remember that pet T-rex you promised your kid when they were throwing a tantrum before bed? Well you’re in luck! Chickens are the closest living relative to the formidable Tyrannosaurus Rex. You can see it in their disproportionate bodies and the way they hunt for prey.
