I started out with 10 chickens, now have 3. I bought them as chicks, to lay eggs. 4 ended up being roosters. I don’t know what kind they are, except they are black, like our cows. Black Animals Matter. BAM!
Unfortunately we had a fox find his way in the hen house a few months ago. We lost about eight good hens and a rooster before I could get him stopped. He had dug his way under the hen house. I buried hardware cloth around the perimeter about a foot deep, that seems to have stopped it.
I grew up on a farm. We mostly had barred rick & rhode island reds. I think we usually kept 30-40 at a time. Their main purpose was egg production. We sold what we didn’t eat to cover their costs.
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I am currently building a new coop and run. This one will house a pure breed for egg and show purposes. I’m researching what breed I want to keep. My grandkids will be the ones showing them. I have been looking real hard at Black Copper Marans, a rare French bird that lays a highly prized chocolate brown egg.
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