I'm hearing crowing in the morning so the folks down the road must have gotten some chicks and ones a rooster. My chicks when they hear the crowing stop and listen.. I was planning on letting them lose and let them graze the back fenced-in acreage when they are older, but now I'm wondering if they will go off hunting for the rooster to join his flock.
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