Welcome to Ethans Chickens

Hello my name is Ethan and I am seven years old I love Chickens! (actually, I like lots of creatures, especially, chickens, wolves and any bugs!

Here is my blog about chickens and how to care for them and maybe one day you may grow to love chickens as much as I do.

Chickens need lots of love and attention, and if you do, they will reward you with lots of eggs for your breakfast, lunch and dinner, scrambled, fried, poached mm yummy eggs!

You will need a chicken coup in order to keep your chickens safe from foxes and other animals which might attack them or steel the eggs, but during the day they can free wonder around your garden, or you can have a fenced in area called a chicken run.

There are lots of different types of chickens and we will look at some of these a little later in my blog.

Chickens eat lots of different things, but they do need grit to help them digest it, it also helps make the egg shells nice and strong. A good source of grit is oyster shells ground up which you can buy from most good farm outlets.

Its very important they have access to fresh water, chicken can drink a pint of water a day each, and it must be clean and fresh. You don’t want to make them poorly with poor sanitary conditions, just remember you want to eat the eggs they produce too! So cleanliness is key. They also like lots of greens, such as lettuce, but be sure to wash it. Some left over human foods can be fed to chickens, but don’t give them too much fatty foods its not healthy for them.