Oooh. Can I pick your brain on chickens? I’m hoping to set up a flock this year, but I desperately need birds that can’t fly worth crap. :D Our fence is four feet high and while I can reinforce the garden, I’d rather not do it for the acre and a half we have fenced.
I would love to answer chicken questions, but I should mention that this is my first week raising them! Diana would have more first-hand knowledge than I do.
Get Brahmans... small pea comb so they can take cold weather;feathered feet so they don’t dig quite as vigorously as other chickens; sweet tempered so even if there’s a rooster in the bunch he’ll be a sweetie; pretty patterned feathers for crafting, can’t fly [too big], and they lay huge brown eggs close to the size of duck’s eggs.
Their only drawback is they take a little longer to mature to egg laying than other breeds because of their size.
https://www.meyerhatchery.com/
Ordered a “Production Pack” ( https://www.meyerhatchery.com/productinfo.a5w?prodID=PRPS 15 chickens) from them, and had a 0% mortality rate, compared to about 10% from another supplier.