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Raising BackYard Chickens
Feeding & Watering Your Flock
Debate on food, free range and egg quality...
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<blockquote data-quote="Badchickenpun" data-source="post: 25947145" data-attributes="member: 643054"><p>We eat a lot of eggs. We are new to chickens.</p><p>We have a small flock of seven chickens that are soon to be egg layers.</p><p>Their run is 12x18, floor is currently grass, will add dye free mulch this fall when grass is gone.</p><p>My wife wants the healthiest eggs (and chickens)... She reads and watches info from the web about buying eggs from the store and what each term means and which is the "best."</p><p>Pasture raised chickens give great quality eggs is her starting point based on her research. Not going to debate that statement for this discussion.</p><p>She thinks that if they were free range we wouldn't need to feed them hardly any food and the eggs would be great quality... she thinks that is the implication from people talking about eggs from free range chickens. I tell her that they will still need access to feed.</p><p>I would rather build a larger (less secure) day time run instead of worrying about them destroying my garden, getting eaten by predators or going places they don't belong.</p><p>How large of a run would a dozen chickens need to be considered "pastured" for this discussion?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Badchickenpun, post: 25947145, member: 643054"] We eat a lot of eggs. We are new to chickens. We have a small flock of seven chickens that are soon to be egg layers. Their run is 12x18, floor is currently grass, will add dye free mulch this fall when grass is gone. My wife wants the healthiest eggs (and chickens)... She reads and watches info from the web about buying eggs from the store and what each term means and which is the "best." Pasture raised chickens give great quality eggs is her starting point based on her research. Not going to debate that statement for this discussion. She thinks that if they were free range we wouldn't need to feed them hardly any food and the eggs would be great quality... she thinks that is the implication from people talking about eggs from free range chickens. I tell her that they will still need access to feed. I would rather build a larger (less secure) day time run instead of worrying about them destroying my garden, getting eaten by predators or going places they don't belong. How large of a run would a dozen chickens need to be considered "pastured" for this discussion? [/QUOTE]
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