I've had chickens most of my adult life. A couple of years ago, I bought 25 chicks from McMurray's to freshen up my flock of 10-12 older hens. I was expecting to give half of the new chicks to my dau, but she backed out,so I ended up with 35 chickens. We had several roosters and last spring all of those new hens went broody and started hatching even more chicks. We now have about 60+chickens!!! We've been eating eggs, giving away eggs, feeding them to our dogs, selling them...you name it. We've had to cull some roosters and that meat feeds the dogs too. My dau has found an organization that will take our eggs as a donation to a homeless shelter. I'm still waiting on that.