Hello,
We are in VA near the Ky state line.
Hubby decided he wanted chickens for eggs and meat plus we raw feed our dogs. We have ordered 25 (straight run) Delaware chicks should be here the first week in April.
We are taking an old rabbit hutch 20 ft long and 6 feet wide and turning that into the chicken coop. We raised rabbit until last year have 2 pets left. We also raise quail and will be adding pheasants also this year.
My couple of questions
We have read that you have to keep your hens that will be hatching their eggs ways from everyone else is this true?
Also about how many hens will we need to keep to supply our family of 4 plus about 4 neighbors with eggs
We plan on keeping 2-3 hens to hatch out eggs with to supply meat for us and the dogs
On to reading older post to learn some more
We are in VA near the Ky state line.
Hubby decided he wanted chickens for eggs and meat plus we raw feed our dogs. We have ordered 25 (straight run) Delaware chicks should be here the first week in April.
We are taking an old rabbit hutch 20 ft long and 6 feet wide and turning that into the chicken coop. We raised rabbit until last year have 2 pets left. We also raise quail and will be adding pheasants also this year.
My couple of questions
We have read that you have to keep your hens that will be hatching their eggs ways from everyone else is this true?
Also about how many hens will we need to keep to supply our family of 4 plus about 4 neighbors with eggs
We plan on keeping 2-3 hens to hatch out eggs with to supply meat for us and the dogs
On to reading older post to learn some more