A year after starting our garden and orchard, we purchased our first chicks, a combination of Barnevelders and Black Australorps. We built a chicken coop with plenty of room to expand our flock, a covered run to give them room to move about on snowy days and a large yard for free ranging. We loved them and their fresh eggs so much we added an assortment of bantams to our flock in the spring of 2022.