AnxiousChickenMom4ever
In the Brooder
- May 7, 2020
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Hi there!
I live on a community farm in Northeast Ohio with three friends and (so far) six chickens. We've got (we think) 3 australorps (a 9-month-old rooster, a 9-month-old hen, and a 3yo hen), a 3yo copper maran hen, a 3yo white cochin hen, and a 3yo lavender orpington hen. Another friend from a previous household purchased the 3yos from Meyer Hatchery's leftovers bin, thus the variety, and the 9-month-olds are the result of a natural hatch-out we allowed to happen last summer. 5/13 eggs hatched - one was eaten by a hawk before we could sex it, and 3 of the remaining 4 ended up being roosters.
So we ate 2 of them and one is now the rooster of our small flock.
We're looking to buy about 20 more hens to add to our flock; they'll probably be golden buffs, and we'll probably buy them as chicks from Meyer in a couple weeks and raise them to pullets before introducing them to our current flock. Hoping that will go well, but to be honest I know very little about this process, so I anticipate asking a lot of questions in this forum as things progress!
That's all I've got for now - excited to be a part of this forum.
Thanks to all who keep it going.
--AnxiousChickenMom4ever
I live on a community farm in Northeast Ohio with three friends and (so far) six chickens. We've got (we think) 3 australorps (a 9-month-old rooster, a 9-month-old hen, and a 3yo hen), a 3yo copper maran hen, a 3yo white cochin hen, and a 3yo lavender orpington hen. Another friend from a previous household purchased the 3yos from Meyer Hatchery's leftovers bin, thus the variety, and the 9-month-olds are the result of a natural hatch-out we allowed to happen last summer. 5/13 eggs hatched - one was eaten by a hawk before we could sex it, and 3 of the remaining 4 ended up being roosters.
So we ate 2 of them and one is now the rooster of our small flock.We're looking to buy about 20 more hens to add to our flock; they'll probably be golden buffs, and we'll probably buy them as chicks from Meyer in a couple weeks and raise them to pullets before introducing them to our current flock. Hoping that will go well, but to be honest I know very little about this process, so I anticipate asking a lot of questions in this forum as things progress!
That's all I've got for now - excited to be a part of this forum.
Thanks to all who keep it going.--AnxiousChickenMom4ever
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