spacecoastchickenmom
Chirping
- Dec 2, 2023
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Hi we are in Florida. Got started with some $1 leghorn chicks from TSC last May. Then grabbed some $1 Buff Orpinton chicks the next day. By the end of the week we had a couple of black australorps, golden laced wyandottes, easter eggers, salmon faverolles and the coop that had taken my hubby over a year to get finished was fenced in with a chicken run and another coop was started. We now have 4 coops and just started getting eggs from our blue andalusians, black sexed link and silver leghorn. Hatched 3 austra whites in incubator, another under a broody faverolles, along with 2 faverolles/black australorp mixes and either a black australorp chick or a buff orpington/black australorp mix. Chicken math is real.
It's been fun raising these girls and their protective australorp roo so far. I barter fresh eggs to a neighbor with a food forest who gives us buckets of fallen fruits and another two families for their food scraps to supplement their organic feed. I bake their egg shells and feed them back to them so we haven't has any issues with their shells not being hard enough. I've also been bartering eggs for additional fruit trees to create our own food forest. I am currently hatching eggs for our food forest neighbor to trade chicks for additional tree saplings and food forest classes.
We also recently bartered some extra banana pups and oak saplings for some EE and olive egger chicks.
It's been fun raising these girls and their protective australorp roo so far. I barter fresh eggs to a neighbor with a food forest who gives us buckets of fallen fruits and another two families for their food scraps to supplement their organic feed. I bake their egg shells and feed them back to them so we haven't has any issues with their shells not being hard enough. I've also been bartering eggs for additional fruit trees to create our own food forest. I am currently hatching eggs for our food forest neighbor to trade chicks for additional tree saplings and food forest classes.
We also recently bartered some extra banana pups and oak saplings for some EE and olive egger chicks.
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