That's one of the reasons why I waited until closer to fall to do any hatching. The batch that's due to hatch on the 10th of this month will be the last one I do for this year. These should all be laying by spring, and since they are Leghorn's, they should lay egg's pretty good.
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How is everyone and their flocks doing?
I've been playing musical chairs with these chick's that I have recently been hatching out. Moved the oldest ones into the main part of the coop and pen, then moved the next batch out there to the growout pen so that the next batch that hatches can go...
My husband and I dug a trench a few years back so that we could run some pvc piping underground from the house out to the chicken run. It made it a lot easier then haulng those jugs of water out there to them.
Welcome to our Arizona thread. I don't know of anyone that is raising Maran's. I have been hatching out baby chick's, but they are the non-white Leghorn's.