Here are my goals with the general egg-laying flock:
First, I want broody hens that set eggs and then brood them. This is because mail-order chicks aren't a thing where I live, although local breeders do exist.
Second, I love the following appearance traits: Black, Blue, and Toppy (because it's so cute). Third, I like having eggs of different colors.
Here a couple of pictures of Silly Rooster, who was our former flock rooster that fathered a large number of the chickens in our current flock. Even though he was just a mutt, he had some really neat traits that included a partial blue color. (If you would rather that I call the color gray, just say so)!
During the second half of 2019, we improved the security of the chicken run.
Back during late February and early March, there was a gap between the chicken yard and the wall of the dirt-floor building that can be seen behind the tropical plant in the pictures. I noticed that a hen was sometimes hanging out in the building, but wasn't really paying much attention to what she was up to. I just thought they were playing around.
We had not had chicks hatch for several years.
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First, I want broody hens that set eggs and then brood them. This is because mail-order chicks aren't a thing where I live, although local breeders do exist.
Second, I love the following appearance traits: Black, Blue, and Toppy (because it's so cute). Third, I like having eggs of different colors.
Here a couple of pictures of Silly Rooster, who was our former flock rooster that fathered a large number of the chickens in our current flock. Even though he was just a mutt, he had some really neat traits that included a partial blue color. (If you would rather that I call the color gray, just say so)!
During the second half of 2019, we improved the security of the chicken run.
Back during late February and early March, there was a gap between the chicken yard and the wall of the dirt-floor building that can be seen behind the tropical plant in the pictures. I noticed that a hen was sometimes hanging out in the building, but wasn't really paying much attention to what she was up to. I just thought they were playing around.
We had not had chicks hatch for several years.
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