Muddy Fingers Chickens

After much thought and planning, we have decided to try our hands at having chickens here on our farm this year!
Having eggs available for the CSA and for sale was only a part of our reasoning for adding chickens to our farm. The real reason we got them was for their manure! We currently grow cash crops on all of our land every year. This does not leave us much space to add to our soil's fertility by growing large amounts of nitrogen-fixing and organic matter-adding cover crops like clovers, vetch, soybeans, rye, oats, etc.
Many farms add fertility to their soils by rotating cash crops with pastured livestock. So, though, we will still have to buy in the fertility (i.e. chicken feed), the chickens will take that feed and convert it into a form that is more available to our plants!
We have ordered 32 chicks - 30 pullets (females) and 2 cockerels (males). If you're interested, they are Black Australorps and will arrive next week!
Eggs will not be available until almost the end of summer. And we will not have a lot (maybe 10-12 dozen/week assuming they all survive). So we plan right now on only bringing them to one market (probably the Corning Market).
Above is a photo of their almost finished coop. It is still missing its covering and wheels. The chickens will be kept inside an electronet fence and will be rotated through fallow vegetable sections, the struggling asparagus patch and the orchard through the spring, summer and fall and will be in the greenhouse in the winter. Well, that's the plan anyway!
Updates to follow!