buy chicks or grown chickens?

[maybejoey]

What is best to buy? Chicks or grown chickens.

 

[Illia]

Of the two mentioned - Chicks.


My personal preference - Hatching eggs

Getting adult birds means you cut back on feed, time, etc but it also means there's a good chance they will be skittish, fearful, aggressive, carrying diseases or lice, or are someone's culls (don't lay well, too old, aren't what you want, etc)

 

[Papakeith]

Itdepends on what you want. I wanted to have eggs right away so getting hens already laying was my answer. I'll be getting CHicks in january.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Chicks because it's fun to take care of them, get to know them and bond with them.

 

[m.kitchengirl]

This time of year, I would get hens.
It is nice to raise them from babies, but you'll want more by spring, and you can get chicks then.

 

[Lothiriel]

Chicks all the way, for the reasons everyone else mentioned. Though if it were the case of a Silkie and I really wanted a pullet, I might get a young one, not a full grown adult, but not a chick either.

 

[maybejoey]

So far chicks are the way to go.

 

[turney31]

Chicks because it is hard to find healthy grown ones. I have bought grown hens also.

 

[maybejoey]

I always buy adult chickens because then I know tha they are all hens then do not have to have a heart break when I have to get rid of a roo.

 

[dainerra]

I've bought hens, point-of-lay pullets, and chicks. really it depends on how long you want to wait for eggs.