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Chickens were our first animal adventure and we have owned them for 10+ years now. Our older laying hens are slowing down and we have collected more chickens to eventually replace them. Chicken math, as most of you know, has us at 40+ laying hens and several roosters.
Hens
Roosters
Meat Chickens
Our farm has over 40 laying hens and contains breed such as speckled sussex, australorps, buff brahma and barred rock.
Two of our roosters stay in the run with the hens in order to fertilize our eggs - just in case we ever wanted to hatch new chicks. We also have several yard roosters that are mostly friendly - there're one in every crowd that wants to fight. They do a good job at keeping the bugs away and making lots of noise.
We raise and slaughter over 100 Cornish Cross meat chickens every year. We order the birds as chicks from hatcheries, raise them in a brooder then move them out into chicken tractors until they are 8-10 weeks old and weigh around 5 to 7 pounds dressed. They are ugly but oh so yummy!