Why do we want school chickens?

Keep chickens for eggs

Keeping chooks provides your household with a daily supply of sensational tasting eggs from a sustainable pet that consumes your kitchen waste and weeds from your garden.

Keeping chickens is a great way to turn waste into food, entertain yourself (and your kids), and they increase the nutrients and health of your soil while eating bugs, insects and sometimes mice.

Environment

Raising and feeding chickens diverts (methane creating) organic waste from landfill, assisting us to slow climate change.

Sourcing your eggs from your backyard instead of the supermarket ensures the quality and freshness of the eggs and allows you to be sure the chickens have been treated well.

Wellbeing

Adding chickens to our backyards introduces the endless entertainment of their scratching, preening, socialising and pecking. Fresh food is always good for us, and knowing our eggs are coming from well loved birds in the backyard (rather than cages in a overcrowded commercial shed) allows us to sleep a little better at night.