Thanks everyone for your thoughtful and thorough replies already. I appreciate you sharing your experience, even when it seems like its news I don't want to hear. Appreciate your care for my future chickens and me. :) I will take a much more critical look at this list and cut it down to less...
Brand new chicken keeper very excited to get her first chickens! I’m looking to shave 2-5 hens out of the flock listed below, taking it from 17 to 12-15. I could really use some experienced advice about who to cut. A bit more context:
My dream is to have a mixed flock of about 1 to 3 hens each...
Brand new chicken keeper from the Black Hills of SD USA. So excited to have our first flock this coming spring! Have no breeds yet, but hoping to have a bit of an ecclectic mixed flock, something like 10-15ish chickens made up of 1-3 chickens of a variety of breeds. (But I'm not sure how crazy...
