My chickens are also another critter on the farm that are not going anywhere. I love my chickens and the eggs they provide for me. We started off with 20 chickens and since then we lost three to death and four were roosters so I definitely had room to grow. I had seen somewhere (not sure where) someone had blogged an image of their rainbow full egg cartons and I knew then that was what I wanted. So the chickens I have selected I aimed for colourful eggs. In the death of two of my chickens I was loosing two wonderful colours so knew replacing them would be a priority, however thought finding any hens close to the age of my own would be next to impossible. Cause really, who would sell their young laying hens?!
Well yesterday I found an advertisement for a woman who was downsizing her flock. Actually, she wanted to sell her entire herd! In that herd were spring hatches! And as a bonus, she was in the next town! So we went over today to see what she had. We came home with six chickens and one duck.