Shortly after we announced that we won the bid on our property, our friends, Michael and Sue Laprise, bought us six Red Sexlinks chicks as a housewarming present. Unfortunately, only two are left…life lessons on the farm. They started laying in June 2016 and are very reliable producers for us.
Not long after we moved onto the property, my parents brought one of our kids back from spending the night at “Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop’s” house…along with an assortment of laying hens, including the Barred Rock below.
As I mentioned, we’ve lost a number of chickens, and one of the countermeasures we took was to acquire a rooster (below). We found him through Craigslist, and he joined our flock in the summer of 2016. He’s a rather tiny rooster, but he knows his job and does it well.
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