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Having had chickens for about a decade now, we have come to learn that there are many things that can affect a chicken's health. As the vet explained to us in the early days "you have to understand that with livestock, you also get deadstock". We were also advised that "if your chicken is looking a bit off colour, then at least you know what you have for supper this evening" (notwithstanding that a sick chicken should not be eaten if you don't know what's wrong with it)
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There is the expression "That's Chicken Feed", meaning its at the lowest end of the range. So, what exactly do chickens eat ?
The answer is anything. The chicken approach seems to be give it a try and see what happens. Part of this seems to stem from the fact that if another chicken sees you with something then they will probably take it and eat it themselves. It is not uncommon for a worm to be shared across 5 different chickens in a pass-the-parcel type manner.
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An often asked question is why do you keep chickens. The answer is easy - because previously whilst on "gardening leave", we decided to create a vegetable plot, which in turn turned into "why don't we have chickens" (meat and veg !). On reflection, this was a really good decision, since they are a bit of fun and handy for disposing of un-wanted vegetable matter, bugs, snails, slugs, in fact anything that wriggles or looks like it might wriggle sometime soon. A Chickens view of food is "if it looks like it might be edible, then give it a try and take it from there" - as various frogs, sloe worms, worms, bugs and other unidentifiable food sources have found to their peril.
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We've all heard the expression "the pecking order", but to actually see it happen is something else.