I raised Aracaunas, which give a beautiful blue/green colored egg.
I had about 12 birds, built a strong coop with nests and horizontal poles to roost on.
I changed the water and feed every two days. Used cedar wood chips or fir sawdust for flooring, to soak up the dung, neighbors would fight over this for their gardens.
I had a strong (1/4" mesh) wire fence, which I buried 6 inches in the ground and up and over the yard area, this kept the predators completely out.
I kept all vegan table scraps and threw them in the yard area, they loved them.
my eggs were unbelieveable.
learned to add corn to the feed in winter, they need the fat, otherwise the egg production would drop off.
12 birds yielded about 8-10 eggs a day.
The strange thing was they became like friends after about six months, when I changed the water and feed, they would sit on my feet and go to sleep, go figure, snuggling chickens.
