- Sep 4, 2012
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I was quite ill for most of last year, but after my prognosis got much better (actually I could die of old age someday), I decided I would like to raise a few chickens and get fresh eggs without driving anywhere. Part of the deal leading up to April was that my wife would not have to get involved, so I got my neighbor into it. For a share of the eggs, he fills in when we are away. I bought a movable coop with caged yard which is listed as good for 7-9 chickens and ordered the minimum 25. Between selling 10 and attrition, I now have 14 hens, of which 13 are leghorns and the other is a partridge cochin. The cochin has not started laying yet, and looks every bit a hen, but she has started crowing. She is so beautiful that my wife will put up with her not so early crowing as long as she starts producing.
BTW I put up a short roost on either end of the one provided and they all can roost at night, but it took them some getting used to it. The nesting boxes tend to have almost all of the eggs in the one on the left, maybe one to three total in the other two and often, but not daily, one out of them out in the coop or run.
BTW I put up a short roost on either end of the one provided and they all can roost at night, but it took them some getting used to it. The nesting boxes tend to have almost all of the eggs in the one on the left, maybe one to three total in the other two and often, but not daily, one out of them out in the coop or run.
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from Alabama. Glad you joined us.
