We decided last summer it was time to bring some life back to the farm. We have raised small crops every year, just enough to feed our family but we wanted more. I found a local breeder and bought a few hens. About a month after we got them home, we realized over half of the hens were roosters. We knew we didn’t want a bunch of roo’s and we weren’t ready to butcher them so I gave them away to a coworker. I then placed an order from an online hatchery, while we waited for them to arrive we found some little cuties we just couldn’t resist at our local farm store, our little flock soon grew to become almost 45 hens and 1 roo!
Our son, Will, reluctantly took on caring for the flock. He moaned and groaned at first but it wasn’t long before he fell absolutely in love with the colorful little egg layers and now doesn’t want anyone else to help care for them in fear that they may not care for them correctly. I’ve never met a 14 year old who enjoys caring for chickens as much as he does!
He even has one hen who won’t leave him alone until he gives her a little scratch each time he goes out to the coop.
Darr Family Farm 