subject: How Can Children Benefit From Having A Backyard Poultry? [print this page] Children might take for granted the long hard process of producing the food that they can easily buy at the supermarket. They might not know the difficulty of raising the hog that is made into bacon or ham. They have no idea at all about how farmers cultivate the land on which wheat is planted to produce their favorite cereal.
It doesn't need much space. Just set aside a little corner of your yard for your backyard poultry and you can star raising your own chickens. Children will experience how hens lay their eggs and that they can be hatched into chicks. Aside from this they can enjoy harvesting or collecting eggs and cooking them for breakfast or as ingredients for other recipes. If you produce more eggs than you can consume then sharing the eggs with family and neighbors can teach children the joy in giving.
Children must be taught how to care for the backyard poultry, how to clean the surroundings, feed and give water to chickens. They will learn the basics of raising chickens so that they will become healthy. The responsibility of caring for the chickens in the backyard poultry will more or less help make them more responsible and aware of the hard work farmers put into producing the food we eat.
Raising the chickens themselves will teach children about self sufficiency and how it is to raise and produce their own food. The eggs and meat they will get from the chickens they raised themselves will show them that food don't always have to come from the supermarket but also from their hard work.
A backyard poultry is truly beneficial to children. It can open their eyes to the fact that through hard work and loving care, they can raise chickens on their own.
by: Howie Kingsley
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