Welcome fellow Canadian..... Make sure you call the city or town before signing your puchase agreement... we were looking at a place, but one side of the road was zoned agri and the other was residential.... we were looking a a house on the chicken unfriendly side... stopped us really quick... also did a search online re: bylaw restrictions only to find out that bylaw is not posted on line and it would cost $60 to have them search that bylaw for an answer...I'm new here, and new to having chickens. We started off a few weeks ago with the idea that "wouldn't it be nice to hatch a couple of chicks as a fun homeschooling activity for the boys?" I decided we should get one of the tiny brinsea incubators and hatch 5 or so. Of course DH decides that this is clearly not enough, so he buys the GFQ hovabator with 42 egg capacity. So okay I say go ahead and get a dozen eggs, as we found someone just out of town who was selling ISA Brown eggs for $5 a dozen. So of course DH comes home with TWO dozen just in case some don't hatch.
Unfortunately we live in a city that doesn't allow any chickens at all, so after our chickies get big enough they are off to our friend's parents farm where we can visit and pick up some free eggs for breakfast. Not too sure what we'll/they'll do with any roos though as I was reading another post on here that said ISA browns aren't worth processing for meat..
We just candled them for the last time before lockdown and saw 22 out of 23 moving! (one of our 24 eggs was infertile) Hopefully that's a good sign! Wish me lots of fuzzy luck. Hopefully by Friday/Saturday I'll be a mama all over again.
Tricky thing this moving for the hobby\obsession of chickens...
Good luck Patricia
