why did you start keeping chickens

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Our start to chickens was an accident! We raise broilers every spring for FFA/4-H. Someone ordered 50 laying hens, then decided against them after they came in.. We ended up with 25. Well, now we have 40 hens, a better coop, and 20-30 eggs every day! I sell them to help cover feed costs. Have read tons on BYC. I do sprouts for the girls.. Just BOSS in a big jar on the counter. Love them, this site. Nice to talk to people with the chicken obsession I've developed!
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At first I lived in the mtns. just in the spring, summer and fall. I left for the winter. One summer a hen(comet) ventured over from next door and made a nest in my hydrangea bush. She was chatty and layed a huge egg every morning. I would have a warm fresh egg for bkf. I learned to love that hen. I went to the coast for a week. I arranged to have her feed. She evidently got caught during a night while I was gone. I did not realize how I had learned to love that hen till she died. Soooo when I started staying here yr. round I got me a bunch of buff orps. They were so sweet. I made a coop and run for them, then another and another. Now I have cut down to one large coop closer to my home with two areas for hens and one for feed. I am older. Now I am taking all my 13 , 12 hens, one roo back and forth to the coast of NC twice yearly. Thats!!! love of poultry. Gloria Jean
 
I started raising chickens because I could not consistently get local eggs. And I wanted them so I had to raise them myself!

Plus I started raising meat birds too so that I could raise them well and for a good price.

No one can raise them like you can, right? :)
 

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