If she's letting you know that it's time, and I've been there, it's time for chicken cuddles and preparing her to go back home. I tell mine what I think happens, where they're going, who they'll see & though we'll miss her, we will never forget her. I tell her thank you for letting me be her...
Whenever I have had a surplus of eggs, I have mentioned it at work and have always had people willing to buy my extras.
I used the money for more chicken treats instead of something like shoes because they are so sweet that it's more fun to hear their excitement at seeing a head of lettuce that...
There's Chicken Math and then there's the Chicken Effect. You HAVE as many chickens as you do because of Chicken Math.
You KEEP the amount of chickens that you have AND contemplate things like building a 2nd coop, adding additional chickens, getting so & so a breed companion so they won't be...