Since returning from our trip around The Big Island we have found a new hobby! Redesigning the back yard with chickens.
Little did we know where purchasing three hens and a rooster would lead. All we wanted was to produce our own free range eggs from happy chooks.
Turns out our hens were rather special! Silver Laced Wyandotte is the breed and they are gorgeous and much sought after. So now we have two SLW roosters ( or cockerels to be more precise) and nine hens. We also have five Australorps because I fell in love with a blue roo! One mummy hen is sitting on eggs at the moment so there is more to come. Our cockerel is Blue and our hens are black so I am hoping we will get a mixed bunch of chicks in a weeks time.
Little did we know where purchasing three hens and a rooster would lead. All we wanted was to produce our own free range eggs from happy chooks.
Turns out our hens were rather special! Silver Laced Wyandotte is the breed and they are gorgeous and much sought after. So now we have two SLW roosters ( or cockerels to be more precise) and nine hens. We also have five Australorps because I fell in love with a blue roo! One mummy hen is sitting on eggs at the moment so there is more to come. Our cockerel is Blue and our hens are black so I am hoping we will get a mixed bunch of chicks in a weeks time.