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Phillip911 said:

I am from Arizona. I grew up raising animals but never had the chance to do it as an adult until this year and I decided to go back to my roots in a big way.
First I built my chicken coop and run from the ground up.
The idea was to start of with about 25 baby chicks and I only planned to have chickens.
By the time every thing was said and done I ended up with 55 chicks, 4 ducklings, and 6 turkey polts.
In the process of brooding them all I lost 2 of my chicks (Bantams) and 4 of my turkeys with in 24 to 48 hours.
I have a mixed flock of chickens now that consists of
White leghorns
Buff orpingtons
Silver laced Wyandot's
red sex links
black sex links
Rhode island reds
ameracaunas
blue austrolorps
and bantams

I still have 2 of the ducks Indian runners (2 have become dinner) and my 2 turkeys a large bronze tom and a royal palm hen


Then Easter came along and we saw a couple of rabbits we liked so I ended up building 4 pen rabbit hutch with nesting boxes from the ground up and a total of 10 rabbits.

And through out all of this I built and planted a garden in raised garden beds in my back yard.

It has been a very busy spring and summer for my family but we have enjoyed every minute of it.

And now for the best part 2 days ago I went out to my coop to check on my flock and discovered that one of my hens decided it was time to leave a present in the middle of the coop floor I found a large egg.
I had not yet built nesting boxes for my hens so in a flurry that night before it got dark I put together a set of 8 nesting boxes.
Yesterday I found another egg this one much smaller so I had a mystery was my hen laying different size eggs or did 2 of my hens decide to start leaving me presents.
I got my answer today when I found 2 eggs 1 large and one small.
I am so proud of my girls that are growing up and will soon be filling my fridge with fresh eggs

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