My First Year With Keeping Chickens: What I Learned

Reader Contribution by Matt Kelly
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I’ve just come to the end of my first year with chickens and I’m feeling reflective. I’m also feeling bold enough to say I have some wisdom to share with the new would-be chicken wranglers out there.

I’m not going to get into skills or techniques or the myriad benefits to having chickens around the home. Look through any issue of Mother Earth News and you’ll get all the info you need, from pro-chickeners more wizened than me.

What I want to share are some bigger realizations that I came to over the course of this first year.  They strike me as being pretty important to a successful start with chickens.

Chickens Rock

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