Okay.only simple math, but math nonetheless. Please, no intervention, I don’t want to turn back now.Yes, chickens can do math. It’s true, chickens are the gateway livestock and I am completely addicted. The coop will be a max capacity, but the run could stand to be stretched out a bit, and I have been thinking about doing that far longer than I have been thinking about increasing our flock numbers. You know what will inevitably follow? A chicken run upgrade. Oh yeah, that also means our original planned flock of 4 will soon be growing into a vibrant flock of 9.
As he is telling his friend about our chicken adventures (the friend used to keep chickens too) I hear my wonderful Hubby tell the friend we will be getting two new hens to add to the flock! Yay! I am so excited at the prospect of adding these two pretty hens and their gorgeous eggs to our flock. It wasn’t until the next day when a friend of his stops by for a brief visit. I know this game all to well, so I drop the subject. I share all this information with my Adoring Husband who rolls his eyes and gives my his characteristic brush off. It is easy to see how much better off the chicks are having one another to be with as they slowly try to find their places among the Big Girls. We are still working on getting the Nuggets integrated into the flock. Bringing in at least 2 birds at the same time, gives the newbies a buddy, a friend to lean on and helps deflect some of those hard pecking beaks as the pecking order gets re-established. Everything I read says don’t bring in just one at a time, give the newbie a friend to be quarantined with for those first 30 days. I promptly began my research into bringing another hen into our flock. Double plus, at that age they should be very near laying, if they haven’t already started. Plus, by 4-5 months old you can be more confident you are getting hens and not roosters. I love the idea of getting the hens at this age, yes they are a bit more expensive than a chick, but he spent his time and energy raising them so I won’t have to. He says he has a few hens that are about 4-5 months old and that they should work in well. The Girls are about 9 months old now, the Nuggets are fast approaching 3 months old. So I call the hatchery to ask what they have available for Marans. The Family and I agree, we are done raising chicks in the house, too much mess, smell and work in our little space. With our current egg basket filled with cream, tan and green eggs as well as the hopeful promise that our like grey Easter Egger chick may be a blue egg layer, the addition of another, richly colored egg would be so fun. The breed second on my list would have to be the Olive Eggers.Īptly named as they are layers of olive green eggs. At the top of the list are the Black (French) copper MaransĪs they are layers of deep, rich, chocolate brown eggs. I already know the type of chicken I’d like to add, in fact, I have a list of breeds and color varieties within those breeds that I would like to one day add to our flock. Since we had to cull one hen, the Hubby said we can replace her.
On that order, our plan to start with four chickens grew to six and then grew again until we were at eight. See, I am a mom, and as a mom I am always looking for new learning experiences for my kiddo, so I saw this as just that, a great new learning experience. It is such a neat experience.” I find a local hatchery and we head down on nothing more than a fact finding mission and return home with 2 Easter Egger chicks, for the sake of experiencing raising chicks. Then my mom tells me, “Oh you have got to raise some chicks. Then a friend of a friend was needing to re-home her flock of 6 laying hens. Definitely no more than 6, but 4 would be good. When the Family and I first talked about adding chickens to our menagerie I said 4 chickens should be the perfect amount to start with.
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