Saturday, April 9, 2011

Newest additions.

It's spring, and time to bring in some new baby chicks!  Last April we started out with 10 chickens, and now one year later we are left with just 5 - 1 beautiful rooster, and 4 hens.  The other 5 met their demise in some form or other, getting hit by cars, killed by neighborhood dogs, and one we think was killed by a coyote or some other wild animal.  We also chose to butcher the one other rooster we had, because it was aggressive and it was attacking the other chickens and the kids!

This year we're raising 5 new pullets (females), Americanas, which will eventually lay "easter eggs", or colored eggs.  The kids are spending all of their time down in the sunroom where we have the baby chicks in a homemade brooder.





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