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Berthaniaflowerd

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May 4, 2020
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Hello! I am hailing from cold northern Quebec and attempting our first try at chicken raising. So far we have been doing pretty good with 7 lovely hens (6 white leg horns and 1 Isa Brown) They seem to be healthy and happy. We are constantly learning news things about them and are really enjoying their eggs and their little chicken personalities as well.
Because we have been enjoying so much and turns out fresh farm eggs are quite popular we thought our coop can easily fit at the max 5 more ladies so we put in an order for some eggs for hatching. Because we live in the north and everything takes forever to get here we went with a higher amount of eggs to ensure a minimal hatch rate. As I am writing this my egg lady has just shipped us 8 Easter eggers, 6 Rhode Island Whites, and 6 Polish Tolbunts which I am over the moon about.
Now I must navigate incubation, hatching chicks, and then moving the young ones to the main coop before the start of winter which over here should arrive in about 2 months.
I will be scouring this website as I have since the beginning of our chicken journey for all the advice I can get. Thank you all very much. :)
 
Best of CLUCK With your new birds.
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Rldad1 said:
How big is your coop and run. Depending on your hatch you could have as many as 27. You could need 100 SF of coop and 270 SF of run as a minimum to prevent problems.
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Hi! The coop is 140 sf and the run is 180 sf. (and once the fence is built your looking at a whole yard) Because of the shipping my egg lady said probably 50% hatch rate which is down from her normal 80%. so that's 10 eggs maybe that will hatch. Out of that 10 is 50% chance they're roosters right. And I don't need roosters. Luckily there's a farm near by that would love roosters and she actually raises chicks in the spring. So with those odds I'm looking at probably 5 hens...maybe. If they eggs don't come damaged.
 

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