What have done towards your prep?

[Mortblanc]

Play some HonkyTonk Women for them so they can two step.

Be careful though, chickens are easily depressed so go lightly on the blues.

Over here it is about time for the molting, brooding season to get going so laying is slow in the summer.

It was in the heat of summer and the depth of winter that I realized I needed 25-30 chickens to keep enough eggs coming in for one person. With only six or eight you might not get but two or three eggs daily. I was paying more for feed than the cost of eggs at the grocery or from the nearby farmers.

And the ammo for shooting predators off the flock was costing me a fortune! It got to the point that I had a motion sensor on the coop and one night at 3am it buzzed to reveal three raccoons, a 'possom, the neighbor's cat and two coyotes trying to get in the pen for supper, all at the same time.