To try to answer some questions:
the older 6 were bought last year from TSC, 3 were bought this summer from a local pet store, the guy who is sick was hatched in an incubator and the other 11 were hatched in the coop by a broody hen. That was beginning of July.
We've gone from 7 to 21 and...
We've got 21 chickens. 6 adults, 3 at 16 weeks, 1 at 15 weeks and 11 at 14 weeks.
The adults seem healthy, exception of one but I'm pretty sure she's just molting not so gracefully.
Most chicks seem healthy except 2 as of this morning. They are about 15 weeks old. I lost one little girl about...
Ah, she's my favorite from our TSC $1 bin last year.
This year one of the hens hatched is 12 chicks and this one caught our eye. He's a strange looking one. Not sure these even do him/her justice.
We began our venture into the world of chickens Memorial Day of 2017. We purchased 10 chicks out of the local dollar bin and pulled 9 hens and one rooster, courtesy of the internets' help on how to pick them. Over the last year we lost 3 hens to predators and had 6 hens and a rooster this...