Why Chickens?

The question on everyones' mind is "Why Chickens?" Most of you want to know why I had the desire to raise and keep chickens. I suppose it was curiosity that prompted me to this adventure.

Like many of you, I have been challenged by the "green" movement to learn where our food comes from. Fairly recent reports on e-coli outbreaks on spinach coupled with information on farming practices, particularly egg and poultry factories (they can hardly be called farms as we know them) led me to research the long tradition of keeping backyard chickens.

Having read the benefits of free-ranging foul and the lack of omega-3 in factory produced eggs, I was ready to try my hand at raising a flock of my own.