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Hello!
I live in Washington and my family and I want to start raising chickens in our backyard maybe during early summer/late spring ish. We're hoping to have 3 australorps for the eggs and I was hoping to get a cochin bantam as a pet and maybe to learn about showing. Will a little cochin bantam be okay with 3 larger chickens? From what I've read so far it looks like if they're raised together from chicks it would be okay and we'll be building the coop big enough for 6-8 chickens but I want to make sure.
Because our neighbors live so close to us, we can't have any roosters so I'm hoping we can buy our chicks from local breeders and get females. Is that a normal practice? Is there another way to go about getting only females?
Thanks in advance for reading and any advice
I live in Washington and my family and I want to start raising chickens in our backyard maybe during early summer/late spring ish. We're hoping to have 3 australorps for the eggs and I was hoping to get a cochin bantam as a pet and maybe to learn about showing. Will a little cochin bantam be okay with 3 larger chickens? From what I've read so far it looks like if they're raised together from chicks it would be okay and we'll be building the coop big enough for 6-8 chickens but I want to make sure.
Because our neighbors live so close to us, we can't have any roosters so I'm hoping we can buy our chicks from local breeders and get females. Is that a normal practice? Is there another way to go about getting only females?
Thanks in advance for reading and any advice