There may be some curiousity about just what kind of hens, and how many of each I own.

2 Americauna
2 golden sex links
1 barred rock
1 leghorn
3 wyandotte lacewing
7 rhode island reds

14 total hens. 2 ducks that don't do anything but harass the chickens. I got into raising chickens with a former girlfriend. She wanted eggs for her children and I put up a chicken coop while she raised chicks. Originally there were rhode island reds, barred rocks and leghorns for a total of 12 hens. The next year more chicks were purchased, and one day I came home to find her telling me "I didn't get any more chickens"... I asked her what she was getting at and she told me she'd purchased 4 Muscovy ducks. At that point there were 19 chickens and 4 ducks, and there really wasn't enough space for them. over another 8 months 5 chickens succombed to predation leaving the 14 here currently.

My girlfriend moved a year ago. I offerred to build her a chicken coop at her new home, but she was very put out by my asking her to clear the building site prior to my carpentry. I don't understand this, free skilled labor is a boon that I'd think would be welcomed. Anyway she doesn't have space for fowl so I still have the chickens a year later. I like having some poultry and am fondest of the Rhode Island reds. If and when she ever does get space for poultry I'd like to keep about 6-10 rhode island reds. The two remaining ducks are also still here. I'd slaughter the ducks, but her son (I regard him as a step son) thinks of them as his pets and visits them occasionally.

So far 8 brown eggs, 2 green eggs today.