One of our goals is to help children/families get started in poultry to foster a lifelong love of growing your own food.
Why help children get started in raising poultry:
Helping children get started with raising poultry can be a rewarding experience for both the children and the adults involved. Here are some reasons why this activity
can be beneficial:
* Will teach your child responsibility of providing for an animal by feeding and watering
* It fosters compassion
* Your kids will learn a lesson on self-sustainability.
* Children learn about cooking and the role of eggs
* They will provide you with delicious farm fresh eggs
* Sharing in the fact that they are giving their chickens a much better life than factory farm birds.
* Your kids will have fewer bugs around. Think of chickens like a natural pesticide when you let them free range.
* If you have a Rooster, your kids can watch baby chicks hatch.
* Kids can take chickens to 4-H and the fair shows and win prizes/money.
* Your children will learn the importance of being kind to the animal.
To help children get started in poultry, we will be starting our FREE program again this year around April 1st.
To qualify you must:
be a child age 10 and up interested in raising chickens. NO ADULTS.
Write a paragraph or make a video showing me that you know how to raise chickens.
Meet in a public place such as a church or gas station with your parent.
Please bring a box.
Take one picture for my website with your babies.
Keep me updated with pictures later on–preferably ones that I can publish. You don’t have to be in the pictures but your chickens do.
You will receive:
3 newborn baby chickens (limit of 3 per family–not per child)
Depending on how cheap that I can get them at the hatchery, they will be pullets.
If I hatch them myself, they will be straight run.
I cannot sex baby chickens very accurately so expect at least 1 rooster if I hatch them.
I do not provide feed, water, heat lamps, cages, etc…
To sign up, please contact us on our sign up page.
Little Rock Poultry 