KEEPING HENS IN YOUR GARDEN

Hens make the best pets!

garden hens

When keeping hens in the back garden, make sure they have a coop where they can sleep and stay warm and dry. The coop will need nesting boxes with straw where they can lay eggs. They will also need a predator-protected chicken run outside. The run should be connected to the coop.

Chickens like to peck at the ground, eating bits and pieces of this and that. They like bugs. They also like to scratch the ground and stir up the earth. Change their water regularly and keep them well supplied with feed. Change the dirty straw in the coop weekly too. It can get stinky in there!

👉🏼 Learn more about keeping hens in your garden

One of the most rewarding routes to keeping hens in your garden is to re-home hens. The British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT) rescue hens which would otherwise be killed once they are no longer commercially viable.

👉🏼 Hen health information from BHWT

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Chickens are the best pets you can have!

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