06-04-2010, 12:17 PM
I love my chickens. It's a beautiful cycle, I feed them and they give me fertilizer for the garden and eggs. I have 5 rhode island reds, all hens, not noisy at all. They're so gentle and tame. I usually go through about a 50 lb bag every 5-6 weeks, it's 16.99 at Del's. I went a lot longer this time because it's been beautiful and I've been letting them free range and they have cut way down on their feed. When they were new layers I got 4-5 eggs per day. They're now about 2 years old and we're getting about 3 a day. Angela