Dear NEOhio Smiths
I live in Akron, not far from you. I have at one time had as many as 25 chicks at a time.
Mcmurrays only allows a minimum of 25 chicks@a mailing. I raised buff orpington chicks for 6months and then filled up the freezer with half of them.
The roosters went first, then waited three months and butchered half again. My neighbors loved the eggs, and were amused by the occasional escapee!
Now I have only 3 hens of the flock and get about a dozen hens every 2 weeks, they are going into their third year and still lay enough for DH and myself we hope to move in the spring to a small homestead in the spring, We are about to begin looking.
When we move we will add more chickens, and save our Current Girls because they are fabulous brooders. I am a city girl and did not know squat about chickens. I read books and did the trial and error thing.
Learning curve can be steep in the city, but I would recommend it to the greenest novice. If I can, anyone can
