Moving Chicks to the Brooder House; Part I
It’s been a week but I finally moved the first part of the chicks from the small tub in the garage to the larger brooder in the pump house. These laying chicks are growing so fast! I can’t wait to watch them grow!
Power Surge Scare
After the recent ice storm, I have had fears of power outages ruining all of the meat in the freezer - no small investment! But one I didn’t think of was when a power surge cut the power to our garage which includes the freezers and the heat lamp for our brand new chicks! Expecting the worst, I ran for the garage!
Chicken Math - It’s Wild
Day Old Chicks
It’s day number one for a set of 16 new laying chicks from Jenks Hatchery! We are so excited to include these little ladies in our coop in the future!
Laying Hens; The 2021 Edition
Chicken math is crazy, you start off saying you’ll get six chickens (maybe twelve) and then you end up having forty. We’re so excited to be adding the color variety in to our egg cartons late this summer! Here’s our 2021 chicken inventory and 2021 update and plan!