I don’t know about you but where we live is mosquito country. Right now the mosquitoes are so bad that you can barely go outside- even during the day.
Now, a few years ago we chicken sat.
‘What’s that’ you wonder?
Well a friend had us watch her chickens for 6 months.
We had never had chickens before so we had no idea what we were in for
We had taken care of them at her place for a few days at a time but this was a long period of time so she brought them over here to our place.
Well, not only was it a great experience but we found that by having chickens that our mosquito population went WAY DOWN.
We could actually go outside and enjoy ourselves.
For a time after the chickens went back home we still reapt the benefits by having little problems with mosquitoes but in recent times the mosquitoes have gotten worse again.
So, last year we decided that we wanted to get chickens of our own.
Having chickens has multiple benefits like:
less mosquitoes and other bad bugs
You get eggs and, if you want to, you get meat
You get fertilizer for your garden plants
They are better than some tv shows when it comes to entertainment
Well, we got 8 chickens last year and they were doing great until the raccoons realized that they were here.
By this January we were down to one last chicken from last year.
We had been trying to keep from getting too attached as we wee hoping to possibly use some for meat as meat prices in the stores is getting outrageous AND it seems like sometimes the meat isn’t as good and we wonder what all of the antibiotics and such are doing for not only the animals, the environment but for us when we eat the meat.
Farm fresh meat just seems like a better choice.
Anyway, sorry for the rant :0)
So, this Spring we got 5 more meat birds and 7 more dual purpose for meat and or eggs.
Now, the chickens that we got this Spring aren’t big enough to realize about eating the mosquitoes. They eat weeds, grass and some bugs but for some reason we aren’t yet seeing the big decrease in the mosquito population
We hope that they will soon start to eat away at this mosquito infestation.
I don’t know if it is more certain kinds of chickens that eat the mosquitoes better? I cannot remember what type our friend had. But, we have Barred Rocks, Americanna’s, Rhode Island Reds and the meat birds which I cannot remember at this time.
So, here we are swarmed by mosquitoes and waiting for the chickens instinct to eat mosquitoes to kick in- Will It?
Tomorrow we plan to give you some ways to keep mosquitoes from biting you and something else that will kill mosquitoes naturally for free.
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