Bonjour lecteurs! If you want to get the children involved more with Nature and teach them to take some responsabiltés, raising chickens is une bonne idée! But here’s the deal: raising chickens isn’t just about collecting eggs or keeping one of those noisy roosters under control. It’s also une experience fantastique for kids to take on a fun and rewarding project. Le plus? You will eventually get a few fresh eggs every day, on top of a fun and oddly educational adventure for the whole family. Here are 6 reasons to raise chickens with your family.
The Cycle of Life In Your Garden
Watching those little chicks emerge from their shells is one of the coolest, most awe-inspiring parts of raising chickens. There is something très magique about this process. So much indeed, that I would fin dmyself glued to the incubator, waiting for those first cracks in their variety of unhatched chicken eggs.
Even better for kids, it’s a great life lesson. From seeing the eggs safely tucked inside an incubator or hen to watching their feathery friends work their way into the world, the experience will teach them so much about life cycles. Because learning also happens outside the classroom.
Beyond the hatching phase, nurturing those vulnerable and small chicks will also teach kids care and empathy.
Responsibility & Dedication
Raising chickens may sound like an easy-going activity, but it’s actually l’excuse parfaite to teach children responsibility and dedication. Indeed, chickens will rely on you to keep them fed, watered, sheltered, and safe from pretty much everything.
For kids, it can be quite a grande responsibilité. They need to check the chicken coop daily to collect eggs, feed and water the chickens regularly, and keep the nesting area tidy.
All those small everyday tasks add up, teaching kids valuable life skills such as time management, routine, and taking care of others.
Learning About Animal Behaviour
While you go for this experience, you will quickly realise that chickens have personalities. Watching them can be a crash course for kids about animal behaviour.
Indeed, the littles ones will get a front-row seat to social hierarchies, with some chickens naturally wanting to rule the roost. They see communication without words, as chickens cluck, coo, and squawk. They witness interactions between species, especially when you have other pets.
Not only it will be very educational but your children will also foster respect for animals.
Connecting With The Outside World
Another good reason to raise chickens with your your family is that it get them outdoors far away from their screens! No tablet nor video games. Make the outdoors cool again!
Running after chickens or preparing a small patch of dirt to watch them dig around in… Let kids get their hands and knees dirty, discover ecosystems they never paid attention to, and develop a real love for Nature beyond their devices.
You can also use this opportunité to talk about the food chain, gardening, and sustainable living.
Science Laboratory in Your Home
Raising chickens in your garden is like having your own mini biological lab.
Do you want to know more about their anatomy and physiology? Check their wings, feathers, and beaks in action as chickens scratch, walk, and fly about. Do you want to teach your kids about life cycles? Look at them grow from the eggs to the hatching until they turn into a chickens.
This is the best science lesson they can ever have!
Laughs & Memories
If you already have animals or pets at home, you will know how much they can help you bond with your children.
Raising chickens is a full on family affair where everyone member of the famille can get involved.
Build the chicken coop altogether, assign everyone a job to be in charge. Par exemple, who will check for eggs every morning?
And think about all those moments when you are all gathered around with the chickens. They can be so funny to observe! We always have a laugh thanks to our bunnies. They sometimes give us quite a show.
So, did I convince you to get started and raise chickens with your family? It’s such une belle aventure and one of another kind too. You will all learn so much from it and it will be something totally unique.
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