My boys 12 and 9 and I just collected our first eggs this week and it made me realize how many cool milestones there are in chicken keeping. I wanted to list out our completed and future milestones for any new "chicken keeper to be", that might read this.
I would also love to hear about your milestones and about milestones I'm missing in my list.
Milestones completed.
Milestones we look forward to:
1. Selling our first eating eggs.
2. Planning spring breeding.
3. Hatching our first eggs from our own stock.
4. Building breeding pens.
5. Creating/Breeding an Olive Egger.
6. Selling chicks.
7. Selling fertile eggs.
8. Broody Hen hatching (thanks GitaBooks)
First eggs!
What am I missing in the list and what are your favorites?
I would also love to hear about your milestones and about milestones I'm missing in my list.
Milestones completed.
- Setting up a brooder.
- Getting our first chicks.
- Building our first chicken coop.
- Building a chicken run.
- Keeping the chicks alive and getting them out of the brooder.
- Finding BYC and realizing there are a lot of really cool fowl out there and showing the first signs of "Chicken Math".
- Building (or buying) an incubator.
- Buying fertile (supposedly) eggs off of Ebay.
- Loosing a full batch of shipped eggs.
- Buying local fertile eggs
- Hatching our very first chicks!
- Showing advanced signs of "Chicken Math".
- Owning multiple breeds.
- Building a fodder rack and growing fodder.
- Buying fertile eggs from a BYC member.
- Hatching our first BYC shipped eggs!
- Hearing the first crow.
- Selling our first rooster.
- Selling our first pullets.
- Getting our first eggs!
- Learning what SOP is and deciding to breed towards it.
- Raising our own naturally fed and free range meat chickens
Milestones we look forward to:
1. Selling our first eating eggs.
2. Planning spring breeding.
3. Hatching our first eggs from our own stock.
4. Building breeding pens.
5. Creating/Breeding an Olive Egger.
6. Selling chicks.
7. Selling fertile eggs.
8. Broody Hen hatching (thanks GitaBooks)
First eggs!
What am I missing in the list and what are your favorites?
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