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After lurking on here for months, reading everyone's fantastic advice, I'm finally joining the forum!
We moved from the suburbs about a year ago to 18 acres south of Kansas City in a rural area.
We have 28 chickens that are about 8 weeks old - a mix of Barred Plymouth Rocks, Buff Orpingtons, White Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, and Black Australorps. Three cockerels and twenty-five pullets.
We have just now moved them outside into the large coop/run my husband and I built for them. It's a compost hoop coop of sorts - - - the run has a built-in compost heap. The structure is made of cattle and horse panels set up higher with pallet walls with plywood for our ends/doors. It's all working out beautifully so far, and we're enjoying these entertaining birds!
We have nine children - - - soon to be ten. So, we have plenty of helpers. We're all looking forward to collecting eggs. I'm looking forward to having our own supply of eggs so we can stop paying neighboring farmers for several dozen each week!
We're waiting a few more weeks before we start free-ranging the chickens during the day.
In the meantime, I'll keep reading helpful threads on this forum as we learn more about how to care for these chickens!
Peace,
Kristin
We moved from the suburbs about a year ago to 18 acres south of Kansas City in a rural area.
We have 28 chickens that are about 8 weeks old - a mix of Barred Plymouth Rocks, Buff Orpingtons, White Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, and Black Australorps. Three cockerels and twenty-five pullets.
We have just now moved them outside into the large coop/run my husband and I built for them. It's a compost hoop coop of sorts - - - the run has a built-in compost heap. The structure is made of cattle and horse panels set up higher with pallet walls with plywood for our ends/doors. It's all working out beautifully so far, and we're enjoying these entertaining birds!
We have nine children - - - soon to be ten. So, we have plenty of helpers. We're all looking forward to collecting eggs. I'm looking forward to having our own supply of eggs so we can stop paying neighboring farmers for several dozen each week!
We're waiting a few more weeks before we start free-ranging the chickens during the day.
In the meantime, I'll keep reading helpful threads on this forum as we learn more about how to care for these chickens!
Peace,
Kristin
and Welcome To BYC!
In our flock, we have no pecking order!
