After months of settling in and learning about our new environment, along with lots of web and literature research, we decided that chickens were the first livestock that we should add to the Kapty Hobby Farm. On our property there was an existing chicken coop, which was very well built. Seemed like it should be fairly easy - get some chickens off craigslist, feed them, water them, and then start eating eggs. We got some regular brown chickens that looked just like this photo.
Morgan exclaims, "There's chickens in there!!!"
Long story short, the chickens were too old, not very healthy so we got rid of them, again on craigslist. A nice lady came in and took them to her petting zoo where they would live as punching bags for the children in our town.
The best reason to get chickens: The beautiful smiles on our kids faces!
Now we've got a better idea. We got some new chicks, so they will be raised in our environment and presumably be happy, healthy and productive egg layers. It might slow down the egg production temporarily, but we weren't getting many eggs anyway, and this is a good long term solution. Nice work Jen!
The chicks are very cute and they are barred-rock chickens. The biggest difference is that they are grey instead of brown. Apparently they are a good mix between egg layers and meat birds...yummmm.
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