How to Keep Hens

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Tip 1 - Keeping Chickens: A Beginners Guide

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Pierre Bertrand | permalink

The definitive beginners guide to keeping our feathered friends
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For further reading: http://keeping-chickens.me.uk/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - How to Keep Chickens in a City

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Alexandra Martins | permalink

Join the "urban chicken movement" and raise your own backyard flock. Chickens are both fun and useful to keep. Don't expect to keep a breeding flock with noisy roosters, but your hens will earn their keep and provide enjoyment by laying...
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For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Keep-Chickens-in-a-City ^[2]

Tip 3 - Keeping Chickens: Information for Beginners.

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Tim Morrison | permalink

Information and advice on how to keep chickens. From our beginners guide to keeping chickens, to information about hatching and incubating eggs.

For further reading: https://poultrykeeper.com/keeping-chickens/ ^[3]

Tip 4 - Want to Raise Your Own Chickens? Here's What You Need to Know

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Helen Pluche | permalink

Ready to raise your own chickens on your small farm for delicious eggs, meat, or just for pets? Everything you need to know to raise and keep chickens on your small farm or homestead is right here.

For further reading: http://smallfarm.about.com/od/farmanimals/a/htkeepchickens.htm ^[4]

Tip 5 - Learn To Raise Backyard Chickens

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by animeliker 35 | permalink

The recent chicken renaissance continues to gather momentum, and coops are becoming common in urban and suburban back yards. Why? The surging interest in local and organic foods has certainly contributed to the trend, but many people keep a flock because chickens make such great pets.
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For further reading: http://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/garden/learn-raise-backyard-chickens ^[5]

Tip 6 - Thinking of keeping hens in the garden? Here's why you should chicken out

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by i STRONG | permalink

My flowers and herbs are ripped to shreds, fruit is torn from its bushes before it has time to ripen. And the worst bit? I have only myself to blame.
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For further reading: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2021238/Thinking-keeping-hens-garden-Heres-chicken-out.html ^[6]