2011 chicken experiment conclusions
This is the first year
that we've wholeheartedly experimented with chickens, and I learned a
huge amount...as well as figuring out how much more we have to
learn. We began the year with four old hens and a rooster, ate
the rooster when he started attacking me, progressed through four sets
of chicks of varying breeds, and will go into winter with an entirely
new flock of ten hens and one or two roosters.
In the process, I've
started to wrap my mind about the best ways to incubate, brood, and
pasture chickens. I've consumed chicken-related books and
websites, kept lots of notes on how the chickens acted on the ground,
and generally pondered chickens at great length. Be sure to check
back at lunchtime for the next two weeks to read about my experiments!
This post is part of our 2011 Chicken Experiments lunchtime series.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Maggie --- Glad you enjoyed the photo.
Greg --- Thanks for commenting! Despite the poll I posted a couple of weeks ago, I always figure I'll bore people when I sum up my chicken research....
Good luck with your new flock! I think you'll thoroughly enjoy them.