We are new to chicken keeping, recently got 6 Australorps and a Red Laced Wyandotte for dual purpose birds. We plan on harvesting the eggs until they retire from egg laying then we will butcher them.
My problem is my father in law... He keeps insisting that we won't like keeping chickens...
We had 6 chickens when the neighbors dog attacked and only one female survived so we just got 6 more baby chicks and I'm not sure how to introduce them. I've read people add younger chicks to a flock at night but this is the opposite problem, I'll be introducing an older chicken to a flock of...