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I decided to change it up a bit this year, I now have golden comets, bsls, bared rocks, rirs, and nhrs. Composting in the run and the gals are loving it! Also making about 10-20$ a week from local egg sales

season 2! I'm up to 30 birds now. The coop design worked okay but now I'll be using the whole barn for chickens and quadruple size run with dividers to grow feeder grains and alternate runs.

Now I'm trying to delete my reply and I can't quite do it. Oh well

Guess it did post

Here's a few new pictures of the gals... And guys

Lol yeah I suppose it does work out that way :-)

Looks like the last one didn't post

As promised the pictures from Saturday.

Well construction is 99% done. Just need a hatch for the chickies to go in and out of the run. Lost 2 babies one died the first night and the other had a bum leg and couldn't walk. I put her down today. The good news is it was in the 50s so we took a trip to the yard to get fresh air. Lots of...

Thank you everyone for the warm welcomes. I took the day off for medical reasons and decided to use part of that time to work on the coop. I now have 4 nesting boxes and space for 4 more, but not sure if I'll need them all. I also added perches using fallen trees and scrap wood and fenced the...

Well I woke up today and decided to give it a go. My brother called from the city and I invited him over to come help since I'm not much of a carpenter. All in all things went well. I have the main coop pretty much finished, now for the run the nest boxes and some sort of Window.

Sorry for the bad pic my phone is my only source of Internet at the moment.

Happy happy happy we have a dozen of the little gals. Wish me luck this is going to be awesome!

wow. Those are some beautiful hens long lived too added bonus since ill be paying a mortgage for the next 30 years :O

Thanks Liz I'm checking them out now :-)

Hey BYC, James here. I just bought my first home and have been thinking about raising DP chickens. As a child I had some Rhode Islands but they were kept as pets. I hunt small game dress and prep all my own meat so I think i should be okay with the feathery gals (fingers crossed). Any advice...