are you looking to get hens that are already laying, or looking to get baby chicks to raise up yourself?
Our first hens we got from a fella in Renton who's daughter orders and raises 100 chicks at a time from a hatchery- they free-range and take excellent care of their birds, and so we got our first flock of 6 from them, for $15 each: Barred Rock, Buff orpington, White Plymouth Rock, "Americauna" , and Silver-laced Wyandotte. The black Easter Egger we got turned out to be a rooster, who is about to get put in freezer camp.
The 16 we have that we hatched in our homemade incubator, (fondly known as the inCOOLbator, and proudly boasting a $9 total cost thanks to recycled materials), are 4 weeks old now, and just moved outside to the first tractor we built last year. we've got 3 to 6 months before any of those begin to lay eggs, which is why we bought another group of layers in the meantime, because my son has a little business selling eggs, and we need to keep him growig his customer base. Hard to do that without an adequate egg supply!
