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Of Chickens & Eggs

 

We have never owned chickens that have hatched their own eggs but we have enjoyed laying hens many summers in a row. We’ve bought ready to lay hens from Anstey’s Hatchery in Saskatoon and another little hatchery just north of the city and a couple times from a nice sized farm close to Warman.

 

Hens are easy to care for. They need fresh water and food once a day and if a person is really punctual and feeds the hens at the exact same time every day they will almost always lay one egg a day each. We found that the Isa Brown hens were the mildest and calmest of the birds available to us. The plain white hens were jumpy and flighty and fought with each other and the Cornish hens were even more so.

 

I liked to buy the special laying hen feed from Early’s Farm & Garden Center. Sometimes I mixed in other grain and sometimes we just fed them the basics and a lot of times we gave them our slop, which they loved. Did you know a group of hens will fight over one piece of lettuce?

 

Very quickly hens will decide where to lay their eggs and keep on doing so. So, when one hen laid its egg in the feed box one of the first mornings I was not surprised to find an egg there every morning all summer.

 

Hens are good pets for families who don’t own animals. They teach the children responsibility plus they provide food for the family. Little children feel so good about themselves when they are old enough to carefully bring in a basket of fresh laid eggs.

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I really love chickens and eggs but I have this problem. I think this is possibly one of the most boring (as in written) articles ever and then I got asked to send it to H & H. How in the world would you dress it up? Or change it?