Rural Gardening: Very sad thing happened today., 1 by smedgekles

smedgekles wrote:
4 hens should do fine in the space you have. Too bad we don't live closer, I have some Buffs that are probably 3 months old. I know I have at least one hen in the Buffs if not two. I also have some that are mixed. They can be very friendly as well. I have one baby sitting on my desk (the one in the picture) as I type this on a napkin. It hatched a little less than a week ago and the hens were still more interested in the eggs so we are keeping it in a box under a light till it gets big enough to go in with some other babies we have. The momma hen was a Buff, the father was an Australorp/Cochin mix.

By the way, Australorps are pretty good layers and friendly too, they are solid black with a green sheen to their feathers, very pretty.