@OC Chick I got 22 chicks last spring. Then I got a couple more because a muscovy hatched a single chicken egg, and I thought that a single chick raised by a duck was not good. It must have siblings. And then another muscovy was so stubbornly broody I could not stop her, and she hatched a couple...
I don't eat my chickens, just let them live their lives. And guess what? That gets criticized too! Someone always feels the need to challenge my way (I'm vegetarian) with questions like "What if your children were starving? What would you do THEN?"
Also challenged is my keeping of non laying...