How To Keep Free Range Chickens
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How To Keep Free Range Chickens
In keeping free range chickens, you should inspect your chickens every morning in details to check if they are healthy. You should feed them properly. Most important, there should be a good supply of water which should get refilled. Hope these tips will help you.
I am going to talk to you about keeping free range chickens. The first thing you need to do is have a big enough piece of ground, of course, available for them. Don't overload your ground with too many chickens.
We have here 250 in these 5 huts here, 50 in each hut. It is important not to overload the ground because you will end up with disease and respiratory problems which chickens are quite prone to. You must have some sort of shelter.
They do like trees, the shade of trees if possible, and of course, fencing, electric fencing, or other fencing around to keep them contained but otherwise as long as you go out to collect the eggs twice a day, we go morning and afternoon if it suits you and feed them twice a day and really inspect them to see if they are coming out of their hut alright and are in good health. Some keep more than 2 or 3 chickens. It takes longer to just inspect then and make sure you have all the chickens that you didn't notice the day before.
We feed twice a day, morning and afternoon, whatever suits you but it is a good idea to collect in that quantity, it is good to collect eggs twice a day. In the free range hens, this quantity, we feed layers of pellets because the first layers would match because of far less wastage enrolled, of course, when you have a lot of hens, economics can hit in a big way. Obviously, water is very important for free range hens and you've got to make sure that you have big enough containers or you have a constant supply of water taps on a long hose pipe with a bore valve and special water containers with a bore valve and as they drink, it obviously fills up but they must never run out of water.
Obviously, in the winter, again, you have to be very careful that your water isn't frozen, that they get enough water. You might have to put the water containers in the house at night or actually take them into your shed and keep them from freezing. Again, it all takes long in the winter when everything is frozen but again, it is vitally important that they don't run out of water.
And those are my tips on how to keep free range chickens. .