Low and behold! Our family does in fact own two chickens. They produce roughly 2 eggs per day, and are very friendly. Their delicious eggs are often used for breakfast, opposed to the low quality, mass production, factory farm eggs.
According to sustainable table, the quality difference between free-range chicken and factory farm chickens is significant. This difference is often due to lower quality in the food of these factory farm chickens.
"A natural chicken diet can include corn, oats, soybeans and dried alfalfa. The pasture provides grasses fertilized by the chickens themselves, as well as worms and bugs, many of which are abundant on the manure left behind by cows.
Feed for factory farmed chickens is significantly less fresh, natural and appetizing. Millions of tons of meat and bone meal from post-slaughter animal waste are recycled back into animal feed each year, and poultry and hog producers are the main purchasers of these products."
Sustainable Table
They are adorable, and make funny noises. I suggest all families jump on the chicken bandwagon!
Here's a good website if you're interested in purchasing chickens.
-Payton, Zach and Shockley
Good info, and nice to see Dottie and Lucy getting some good photo-op! I think it's "Lo and behold." :)
ReplyDeleteA few extra spaces are needed for extra professionalism, but a great post, and of course, we have great eggs. :)