Our Chickens

Last October we decided to get chickens again. So we ordered 25 chickens. Why did you order 25 chickens you ask? Well we wanted to make sure that we only got Hens and it is best to order 25 at a time so that they travel better. Anyway we got them the middle of October. During the first couple of months we ended up losing 4 chickens. Some kind of eye infection got them. We started doctoring any of the chickens that we noticed had the infection and giving them all some antibiotic in their water. And Praise the Lord we were able to get rid of that infection and save the rest of the chickens. There for a while we were a little worried that we would lose a lot more of them. They are now 5 months old. Yesterday my husband and I cleaned out their laying bins and my nosy chickens had to come and see what we were doing.

We have a small shed that we have a 10 box laying bins on each side of the shed. This has worked well for many years. We actually got our first chickens about 8 years ago. We had decided to get rid of them about 1 1/2 ago, but regretted it later. We decided to fence a part of our back yard for the chickens so that we can still have a garden and the chickens can have their own part of the yard.

Last week we found our first two eggs! How exciting is that?!! Our chickens are 5 months old now. And we have been getting anywhere from 2 - 4 eggs a day. Most of them are still small. But as they lay more the eggs will get bigger. It is so fun to go gather eggs. We are so glad that we decided to get chickens again.

This week we decided that they need more space than what we gave them so we have decided to get more fencing and take the fence from the back of the house all the way back to the back fence. That way they will have about 1/3 of our back yard. We will still have plenty of room for a garden and what ever else we want back there.