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Rising the case for loving rooster’s song at 5 AM.

The coronavirus times highlighted vantages and disadvantages to raise hens and chickens in our backyards. After the evaluation, the balance will go to how adventurous you are, where do you live,   how a   firm believer you are in sustainability principles, and your relationships with neighbors. Hens and chickens are easy to raise, need only small coops as homes, not too much space.   Thrive in any climate. They are very productive, you can get one egg a day, so if you have 6 hens there will be 12 eggs in two days, that is a big amount of eggs!  You can feed hens with protein food in the winter and leave them free in the warmer time to eat insects, bugs, worms, and cooking scraps, aka free run eggs…… And after sometimes you can set up a small incubator where you can set some fertilized eggs to get the hens’s next-generation (no hormones here). And,   you can also use the meat of the original ones. So there will be eggs and meat. In potential pan...