- Chickens can be friendly sociable productive animals to keep.
- A great introduction to keeping livestock
- They are a healthy, outdoor animal which the whole family can be involved in, young and old .
- Whilst they need daily care, they are not as time consuming as your pet cats or dogs.
- Great slug and pest clearers. Although you do need to protect your gardens if have vegetables and flower beds
- Chickens are great stress relievers – just sitting and watching them is really relaxing.
- A supply of delicious, healthy eggs from your own chickens.
- You will know exactly what has gone into your food.
- Can be great to help focus children and young adults and create responsibility and ownership of task.
- All our chickens are productive for laying eggs if you purchase our hybrids, for broodies as with some of the bantams although they still lay lots of eggs and for a dual purpose bird when it comes to some of our pure breeds.