Last week I brought home a new hen, a beautiful 8-month old black Ameraucana who has already laid two lovely minty blue eggs for me. I understand it's difficult to introduce just one bird but my ordinance only allows me one more chicken, so I did lots of research on how to do it and got one...
For those of you who got that I Love Lucy chicken picker reference, watching that episode as a child is one of the many reasons I'm now the proud owner of a backyard coop and four (soon to be five) hens!
I decided to set up a backyard coop when we bought our house about a year and a half ago...