We are incubating 3 batches of chicks all a week apart. Ended up with 54 out of 74, not great but happy none the less! Going to introduce the last 18 with the rest in a few days. Hoping no troubles with size difference. First two batches didn't have any trouble they were a week apart. But this...
We were lucky enough to come across 3 farm innovators incubators. So we decided to go see if we could get a few more chickens this year. Starting with 23 the first round. We are on day 2. We have a little game going. My wife says 4 will hatch, my youngest (5) thinks 8, Grandma says 10, myself...
We got a few chickens and all the males are white with black. All the hens are brown. We received them a couple years ago but did not find out the breed. Plan on trying to hatch eggs this spring so was just curious.
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? - Yes somewhat, had chickens growing up. Now been back at it for 2 years.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now? 8
(3) What breeds do you have? Sussex I believe.
(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard...