I'm in lovely Clinton on the south end of Whidbey Island. We've only been here two weeks or less, but we're in love. We have a nice big coop that I'm slowly working on filling up with friendly cluckers.
I've just begun today building my second chicken tractor out of materials left behind when the house was built. It's a simple one, but I think it'll do the trick. The plan is to slowly build up a flock of purebred breeders so I can offer fertile eggs and chicks.
I was thinking I would put one roo in with two or three hens in small breeder pens, and after a week or two, however long it takes to make sure the eggs are fertile, put the roo back into the big coop and let the girls do their thing, which hopefully will mean sit on some eggs for me, as I would like to have the eggs naturally hatched. I don't have an incubator and as fascinating as it sounds to have one, it also sounds really tricky and expensive. Correct me if I'm wrong!