"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> Cool. Keeping chickens is something I intend to do, when I have a garden 
> of my own. They eat kitchen scraps and turn them into free eggs! It's a 
> no-brainer.
>
> The difficult part (at least in the UK) is fox-proofing...

They're in a coop right now, and unfortunately, that's where they'll spend 
the next 3 months.  Anyway, it's very fox proof.  Mice could still get in, 
and possibly rats too, but rats are only a problem with chicks.  They spent 
the fall and summer in a movable pen.  I learned a few tricks to keep 
predators out of that, after losing one chicken and having another one 
scarred for life (which was only 4 more weeks until he got the axe).

The more I read about raising your own chickens/eggs is that just about 
anything you produce yourself is going to be healthier than what you would 
get at a store.  That's not an answer to my "Why?" question, but it's nice 
to know.

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