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The Real Reason We’re Quadrupling Our Chicken Flock
Eggs are expensive and chicken is tasty but are we doing too much too fast?
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Chickens are the gateway homestead animal. “Let’s get a few chickens. I mean, free eggs, right?” That’s how the conversation starts. For us it was only a few short months from uttering those words until we were looking for a new home with acreage.
A chicken’s “useful” egg laying life is usually from about 20 weeks of age through about year two. They’ll still lay beyond then but their highest production is typically within that window. Most of our flock is going on 3+ years old now and egg production has taken a serious dip. It’s time to bring some younger hens into the fold so we can have steady supply of eggs this year.
Of course these new hens won’t begin laying until July or August at the earliest so in the meantime we found five more hens about one year old. They’re laying right now and with the daylight hours getting a little longer each day our older girls are starting to lay again too. For the first time in months we have eggs again!
All this is in addition to the meat birds that will be coming very soon too. When they arrive we’ll have over 60 baby chickens on the farm at the same time. We’re overhauling the barn to have the ULTIMATE chick brooder in anticipation of their arrival. If you want to see that make sure you’re subscribed to the channel so you can keep up with all the stuff going on here on the homestead!
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