I have dreams at night about quitting my day job, and raising baby chicks up to 8 weeks for people. Hatching and growing all year round. Covered in baby floof all day longβ¦ahh, paradise. π
I am not doing the hatch a long because I have eggs ordered for pickup the day after Easter and am setting at school on Tue. For like 2 weeks, I had to convince myself not to buy eggs for the hatch a long. If a chick hatched late it would throw everything offβ¦and not enough time to clean the...
Good job. Step 1 is admitting you have a problem.
If you really donβt want more chicks Iβm sure thereβs another addict on here that will take them off your hands. π
I ordered 6 chicks from a local hatcheryβ¦and told him I would take a few extra pullets that hatch from other breeds. Oops. It just happened somehow. :idunno
So the plan was, add 5 chickens for the new backyard coop, and 10 for the farm.
Order so far is 17 (ok only 2 more, not too bad), but thatβs not counting the Wheaton Ameraucauna eggs I am setting in June. ππ
Whoopsβ¦
I started out as a chicken tender to two friends with flocks. After refusing to take money since I enjoyed it so much (one of the flocks I let free-range for about an hour at dusk because I know they are trained to go in at that time & will come to mealworms one the event they donβt...