Keeping Chickens for Beginners Workshop
Saturday 22nd March 2025
SJ Library Services have partnered with Switch Your Thinking to present Keeping Chickens for Beginners
Chickens are a great way to reduce your food waste, get eggs, dig your garden and make great pets too!
Learn about the basics of chicken keeping including;
- Your local government requirements for chicken keeping.
- Building a predator proof coop
- Soil and egg testing and why this is important.
- What to feed them for health and egg production.
- Common ailments and how to prevent disease and parasites.
- How to integrate chickens into your garden systems.
- Sources of good chicken keeping information.
- Most importantly, what to name them.
Plus time for Q and A. Your workshop facilitator is Sarah McCabe. She is an enthusiastic backyard chicken keeper of over 10 years and ran a zero waste chicken feed business.
Bookings required:
https://events.humanitix.com/keeping-chickens-for-beginners-3k8a7pt7