Last year after our 4-H Fair I convinced my parents to let me take home to meat chicks, which eventually turned into a coop and 4 layers in our yard. I will be showing these 4 hens along with a pen of meat chickens at fair this year. I am hatching these chicks myself actually. At my high school...
We have now had our little flock for a little less than 4 months. We got them at around a week old. They were just general hatchery chicks that were hatched in inner city schools by the extension and then were up for grabs for 4-H familys. We unfortunately lost one chick, but out of the 5 we for...