Chicken
farming is a very lucrative practice for both commercial and personal
purposes. Technically, people who raise their own chickens enjoy a wide
range of benefits.
Ever
since men have developed the capacity to think, we have always thought
of ways to further improve things or to emulate what others are doing.
That’s why we see products naturally improving over time or are being copied from one country to the other.
On
a smaller scale, food production also entails the same thing. People
began to wonder how easier and cheaper it would be if they could grow
their own food. Thus, came the advent of homesteading, defined as emulating a self-sufficient lifestyle.
Among the top homesteading practices is chicken farming. I’ll soon explain why.
Promotes Humane Chicken Treatment
If
you’re like me, you probably buy your eggs or chickens at the grocery.
It’s quicker, available in bulk, and less tedious than going into the
process yourself.
What
I found, however, is that the industrial farms that house these
chickens are not at all very humane. In fact, the chickens’ quarters are
said to be very tight that chickens can’t even socialize, walk around
or even stretch their wings.
So
here’s the catch. Chickens subjected to such treatment are said to
suffer from psychological effects that sometimes affect the eggs they
lay and the quality of meat they produce. That’s why I’ve decided to
totally shy away from industrially raised chicken meat and eggs.
Fresh and Nutritious Eggs
On
a similar note, eggs produced by chickens raised in friendly
environments are shown to have as much as double or triple the omega-3
fatty acid content as well as a third of the cholesterol. Best of all,
you know exactly what your chickens are exposed to and fed, which gives
you the assurance that no chemical substances or feeds were used in any
way.
Going
back to the topic on commercially produced eggs, there is another thing
bothering me about buying eggs at the store. The freshness is
definitely not there anymore. After all, the eggs have been ...Read more https://www.patriotdirect.org/advantages-chicken-farming/
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