About a year ago I started a thread about raising chickens for eggs but there was not much response. However, one of my friends became very interested and today we each have a few chickens and get the most marvelous eggs!
Her chickens are confined to a coup as she has big dogs, mine also have a coup but once they spent a month in there they are now free roaming. They are fed and watered in the coop and lay their eggs in the nesting boxes there. She has 11 hens and no rooster. I have 11 hens and one rooster (my gardener says the hens are happier and the rooster is estatic!)
With food and care these are the most expensive eggs we will ever eat! But once you have experienced fresh eggs from happy chickens you will never touch those unrefrigerated stale eggs with thin white shells again.
Her chickens are confined to a coup as she has big dogs, mine also have a coup but once they spent a month in there they are now free roaming. They are fed and watered in the coop and lay their eggs in the nesting boxes there. She has 11 hens and no rooster. I have 11 hens and one rooster (my gardener says the hens are happier and the rooster is estatic!)
With food and care these are the most expensive eggs we will ever eat! But once you have experienced fresh eggs from happy chickens you will never touch those unrefrigerated stale eggs with thin white shells again.
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