New babies are doing great! They eat and drink their little hearts out! And chickens are popular is my area at least! Usually it's not just a few hens for eggs, it's mostly flocks of 30-100 kept to sell eggs or purebred babies. Unfortunately not a lot of people around here show so the quality of the "purebreds" is hit and miss. I bought some local Dominiques and I suspect at least 3 are crosses. I'm raising them for meat and eggs for our family and my dog (lol he is raw fed) so the suspicious looking ones will have a place in my freezer but I wanted to get hatchery chicks to ensure some purebred quality. I'm going to be culling my flock based on SOP so hopefully with these two lines I can build up a better line of Dominiques. I want chickens who can do well at a show yet come home and be amazing foragers, layers, mothers and suitable meat chickens as well. All the things Dominiques were intended to be!