kelseyfox226
Hatching
- Sep 18, 2015
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Hey everyone, I finally just made an account after already falling in love with this site! I seriously have found it soo helpful and I am able to always get every question answered by just snooping around on here.
My little family just bought our house in Sandy, Oregon and I have successfully convinced my husband to let us have baby chicks! We got them from a sale Coastal farm and ranch was having. 5 free chicks with a purchase of chick starter. Anyway, after searching through the pre selected boxes of baby chicks. We found our 5. I wanted a mix flock so I looked for a box with as many different colored chicks as I could. I was pretty sure we had one ameracuana, 3 plymouth barred rocks and a rhode island red. But as they grow older I am unsure of 2 of the barred because they are all black and are about 2 weeks old now. So I don't really know. But oh well we don't mind as long as they are hens and if they are roosters then we have dinner for that night
As of now we have 8 chicks. We got a silver laced wynadotte, buff orpington and a red sex link. We couldn't resist having one of each of the breeds they had at the store.....
They are all about 2.5 weeks old and live in our second bathroom. We just finished their coop. It's a 4ftx4ft( which I now wish we would have done a 3ftx5ft). We plan on having them free range around in a back and side section of our backyard. I was unsure after reading a lot of threads on here that we might have made their coop too small, but they will have access to more than 300sqft of our backyard as their run, so I am fairly certain that they will be just fine. 100sqft of their area is going to be under our deck, which we are making covered, so they will always have access to a dry area. Plus they are all being raised together and are getting along just fine.
We are really enjoying the chicks and can't wait until our first egg!
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