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When I was a kid I would get 2 dyed chicks for Easter. Of which one would die and the other...well after a weekend at grandma's mid summer, I would come home to a fried chicken dinner and my chicken was gone! I'd cry and mom would tell me she bought chicken, mixed it all up so I wouldn't know who I was eating. That was good enough for me as I love fried chicken. Now that I'm retired I got MY chickens about a year ago starting with 6 Rhode Island Reds. After I got home from tractor supply I looked on line (most likely at backyardchickens.com) and saw that female RIRs had a distinctive mark on their heads. So I had bought 4 roosters and 2 hens. Immediately went back and got 2 more females. Once the coop was finished and they moved out of my 2 person bathtub I started culling the Roos. Now I'm down to 1 roo and 4 hens. We all live happily on the nature coast in Florida where they free range during the day on their fenced 5 acre spread and spend nights in their compound locked up in the coop. And that's how it started.
 
Nothing like managing your OWN chickens. I started with Rhode Island Reds and bought straight runs. I ended up with 5 roosters out of 8. I kept one and gave the other 4 away for store credit when they were old enough to compete for mating. If I could have done it over again, I would have picked another breed. The rooster was mean and the hens are top of the pecking order over my other breeds.
 
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Chic Momma said:
When I was a kid I would get 2 dyed chicks for Easter. Of which one would die and the other...well after a weekend at grandma's mid summer, I would come home to a fried chicken dinner and my chicken was gone! I'd cry and mom would tell me she bought chicken, mixed it all up so I wouldn't know who I was eating. That was good enough for me as I love fried chicken. Now that I'm retired I got MY chickens about a year ago starting with 6 Rhode Island Reds. After I got home from tractor supply I looked on line (most likely at backyardchickens.com) and saw that female RIRs had a distinctive mark on their heads. So I had bought 4 roosters and 2 hens. Immediately went back and got 2 more females. Once the coop was finished and they moved out of my 2 person bathtub I started culling the Roos. Now I'm down to 1 roo and 4 hens. We all live happily on the nature coast in Florida where they free range during the day on their fenced 5 acre spread and spend nights in their compound locked up in the coop. And that's how it started.
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