Thank you all for the awnsers. Helps a lot. I have only 1 breeding pair. they are doing very good. They have given me 12 chicks in the last 7 months. I want a second pair to breed with. My aim is to have about 12 hens to lay eggs and the 2 breeding pairs to keep the hens for laying. The excess...
My new chicken run, will soon be finished. I am only going to keep hens in this run for eggs. It is 5 meters by 4 meters by 2 meters high. I want to have at least 10 hens in this run.
These are my chickens, the hen with 1 chick is her only chick that has lived. The hen with the 8 chicks is also the mother to the 4 other bigger chicks.
Hi my name is Roger. I live in South Africa. I live and work on a vegetable and grape farm. I started about 14 months ago with 3 hens and a rooster. I had some chicks breed out (7), the hens killed some of the chicks (5). I added onto my chicken run and built another one to separate the hens...
