We will be ordering our baby chicks within the next week or so, kinda excited actually, but first we need to prepare a brooder (place for baby chicks) and once the snow is gone Steve can begin on the “Coop”. Our chickens will not be free range as I don’t care to have them all over the deck and around the pool etc, but we do plan on giving them a good size pen outside, the bigger the happier they will be. We are going to get just hens (layers) no roosters for this chick, had one of them once and never again! It’s been about 13-14 years since we had chickens but I am so sick of paying the high price for eggs and then you see and read the conditions the chickens are raised under and it just makes me ill. So we have the land so we are going to go for it, and we can always sells extra eggs too. We are getting chickens that will lay brown eggs, and also the Araucanas which lay different shades of bluish eggs. An excellent website for info is backyardchickens check it out! We should be authentic dummies by the time we are finished with the book.
Do you have chickens, ever thought about it? If so what kind do you have?
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