I feel ya! I started hatching in February and didn't stop 'till a couple of weeks ago. I finally got my incubators stored away and the last chicks out of the house!! YAY! I mean, I do love the little boogers, but I don't really want to live with them in the house 24/7!
I swear though, I still hear peeping even though they've all moved out to the "kindergarden" brooders in the barn and shed...I think that's a sign that I needed the hatching break!
I have also had a really hard time getting rid of roosters. It didn't help that I hatched a much higher number of roosters than hens--my last Polish hatch I hatched ONE hen. The rest (9, 10? I forget) where roosters.
I can't give them away! So things are getting much more crowded than I anticipated and I really don't like that--it's just not good for the birds. I'm hoping that a friend of mine wants them for his freezer, he mentioned he was interested a couple of months ago. I have no other choice.
I plan to spend the summer getting more pens built and doing a lot of culling. I have about 70 birds right now and I'd like to get down to half of that! Then come fall I should (hopefully
) have my pens/coops the way I want them and will have a good plan for how my breeding pens will be set up for next year. I'm also hoping to be able to condition some birds for show in the fall, if I have the time.
We just bought 100' of 1/2" hardware cloth today, so this weekend will hopefully see the completion of more pens!
