Hello. I am a first time everything. I have had my chickens for a few months now and its great. They have a great backyard to run in with lots of cover. Lots of bugs to catch. In fact now that we have them, I am not seeing as many spiders as before. I never knew owning chickens could be so fun. I started with 5 but unfortunantley they figured out how to get out of the coop at night and one was killed. Now that we have converted an old shed to a coop they are safe. I have a silkie and the rest I have no idea. This all started off as a small project for my daughter whos 1st grade class incubated eggs and hatched them. She talked me into bringing home a few, raisng them for a bit then giving them to a friend who owns and raises chickens for eggs. We grew so attached we could not let them go.
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