My kindergarten enrichment classroom did an embryology unit this past spring, starting with 20 eggs in a variety of colors and sizes in an incubator. The week of April 24th, 13 eggs hatched. I ended up bringing 6 chicks home, and my better half and I just finished, last week, building the coop...
What I wonder is how many folks in suburbia with backyard chickens keep them in the run and coop all the time, as opposed to allowing them out during the day and then having them 'cooped up' at night?