If you have been thinking about adding some more living color to your yard and garden, Spring is the ideal time to think about chickens. With the growing interest in eating local foods, what is more local than harvesting eggs from your own chickens. For a small family, 3 to 4 chickens can furnish plenty of eggs. Housing can be kept relatively simple, feeding and watering equipment is widely available and chickens can be purchased as chicks or even as adult hens ready to lay.
If you are interested in raising chickens for pleasure or profit, eggs or meat, Cooperative Extension will be holding a workshop on Monday March 25th from 7 pm to 830 pm here at the Extension office in Plattsburgh. We will cover the basics of chicken husbandry, housing, nutrition, and related topics.
The workshop has a $5.00 registration fee. Contact Peter Hagar, Agriculture Educator at 561-7450 or phh7@cornell.edu
