I have been raising chickens now for 2 years. I started out with 12 hens and that grew to 16 hens, 2 roosters and 2 guineas. Several of the hens died when they were little and my beautiful rooster was dead one morning when I let them out of the coop. I got rid of the male guinea because he was a real bully. Right now I have 13 hens, 1 rooster, 1 guinea, 2 juvenile marans, and 9 baby chicks. Going to get 2 more babies this Friday.
I have a pretty much mix with my breeds. I did a lot of research before getting my birds looking for certain things, mainly egg production and cold hardiness. The breeds I have are brahmas, sussex, marans, americana, australorp, production red, welsummer, and leghorn.
I live in CO where I spend most of my time gardening and knitting along with taking care of chickens and other pets. I don't work outside of the home, but I find that I work harder now than I did when I got paid for working. There seems to always be something to do.
I found this website from a post on Facebook about DLM. I was interested in it and found all of the responses very informative and decided that this would be a good place to get more information or help when needed with my chickens. Can't wait to learn more great stuff from all of you.
from Ohio. So glad you joined. Good selection. Good luck. 
