Thanks for admittance into this group!
I was told about this site by a friend of mine and am excited to learn.
We have recently purchased a quarter section of land with a home and space for a chicken coop. Last summer, we raised 100 meat birds. We had no clue what we were doing....and we kept 95 alive and they dressed out between 6.5-8 pounds! We then decided to do egg birds. Currently we have 25 Rhode Island Reds that are 17 weeks old and are just starting to lay as well as some 6 month old hens we inherited from an old neighbor. Currently, we are getting 7-9 eggs a day and are so excited.
We are looking at getting more meat birds in the spring and trying out different breeds of layers. We are going to be selling some of our Rhode Island Reds as we found it difficult to find layers that we didn't have to raise from chicks so decided we would help some others out that were in our same boat.
I was told about this site by a friend of mine and am excited to learn.
We have recently purchased a quarter section of land with a home and space for a chicken coop. Last summer, we raised 100 meat birds. We had no clue what we were doing....and we kept 95 alive and they dressed out between 6.5-8 pounds! We then decided to do egg birds. Currently we have 25 Rhode Island Reds that are 17 weeks old and are just starting to lay as well as some 6 month old hens we inherited from an old neighbor. Currently, we are getting 7-9 eggs a day and are so excited.
We are looking at getting more meat birds in the spring and trying out different breeds of layers. We are going to be selling some of our Rhode Island Reds as we found it difficult to find layers that we didn't have to raise from chicks so decided we would help some others out that were in our same boat.
Glad you joined.
It's very nice to meet you!
