Okay, We are all in school again and I am going to condescendingly ask you some questions.  What is deposited under a chicken coop kids?  What can we do with what is deposited under chicken coops?

Well, Kids, beneath chicken coops are chicken poops (Sorry).  Chicken manure is great feeding to a variety of invertebrates from composting worms to Soldier Fly Larvae.  The former needs for the manure to be aged and the latter will lay their eggs in the fresh stuff.  The Black Solider Fly Larvae will eat the manure fresh and they will do a great job of eating it all.  Those grubs, which we trademarked under the name Soldier Grubs, are great for reptiles, fish and chickens.  You can make chicken food out of chicken poop.  How great is that?

Anyway, in order to gather chicken poop for your worms, or for composting, you need to have the chickens pretty much confined to one area.  Free range is great, but free range in a cage, where animals can’t kill your chickens, and so you can get the poop is even better.

If you’re reading this, you probably already are very aware of the benefits of owning and maintaining your own chickens.  You’ve probably already known that the average chicken lays over 260 eggs a year, and that can lead to over FIVE THOUSAND eggs for your family per year.

You already know the positives.  Knowing all that, maybe what has stopped you in the past was worrying about the cost of buying a chicken coop, or the complication of how to build a chicken coop, such as coop materials, insulation, lighting, ventilation, nesting boxes, perches and predators protection and perhaps the upkeep for the chickens themselves.
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