Mahonri's 2nd Annual BYC EASTER HATCH. Post pics of your chicks!

You guys are scaring me a little.
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I started with four, added five more, lost one and hatched six. I had to cull one chick so I have 13 right now but I am getting two dozen to set this month and I am going to set at least 15 for the Easter hatch. I only started less than a year ago. Mahonri, if this is how it starts, I think it would be a double episode of animal hoarders.
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Of course I am pretty sure I have three roos in my NYD hatch so they are not staying so I really only have two to add to my eight in the coop with plenty of room for more.
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Kathyinmo....
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I have had chickens for about 10 years. I have always kept between 10-20. Now I have somewhere about 100. Moved into this house last Jan. It has 2 commercial coops 40 x 500 each.
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OOOoo yeah!!! We had a farmer leasing them but he retired in Dec. Now they are all mine! My BF is going to build me a bunch of coop. Right now everyone freeranges together and gets locked up at night in dogruns that are in an equipment bldg. 30 x 70. Yup the tractor sits outside so my horse & chickens & peacocks can be inside. I will also get a heated section for the chicks, BF already bought the furnace & oil tank. The barns have heat, but run on propane heaters and I am not heating the whole thing. I guess he doen't care for the 30 something little ones in the house because its too cold.......
 
OOOO had to share this..............

This morning I was sitting in the livingroom with my daughter waiting for the school bus. So we are talking and watching our New Years babies running up and down the levels in their chicky condo. All of a sudden one of the 38 day old Silkies crows!!!! I have had Seramas crow at 4 weeks but never a Silkie! I never even know for sure what they are until 3-4 months the earliest and have been so wrong many times. I would not be surprised if I hatched 16 roosters...
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I know I hatched LOTs of roos. I guess that's part of the process.

of course I'll be keeping the best looking Icelandic roo,
the wheaten marans roo and
my son wants to keep a BW am. roo from halo's eggs so that's 3... he thinks it will replace our Geoffry who's fertility is really in question right now.
I think it's just the cold.
 
OOoo I know exactly who the little crower is. I keep talking trash to him and he is giving me stink eye. lol
 
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Sorry, that's outdated - we have 23 now
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Not by choice - we inherited a wild population when we bought our property. I've been workiing on getting them tamed and "fixed". There is only 3 in the house at least
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Good for you!

I want to trap and neuter the local population (we moved into a farm house complete with local feral cats) but DH says I should leave them alone.

Like I want a zillion NEW cats hanging around next kitten season.
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Your kitties are beautiful and you must be very dedicated to bottle raise your little one.
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Thanks! I grew up with spoiled house cats so I can't make the transition to letting wild barn cats be wild, sick, and free to have more. Mine are all fed and the ones I can catch are fixed and vaccinated. Except for the food it will only be expensive for the first year or two. Fortunatly my new vet only charges $70 to spay and $40 to neuter, but he won't do them if they are freak-out wild. As far as the bottle baby, he was special. he kept falling out of the hayloft the first couple of days after he was born so I figured his mom had abandoned him. I had to get up every 2 hour to feed and potty him, but that didn't last very long. Now he is well on his way to being the best cat I have ever had!
 
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Sorry Steve - I feel your pain. That is what mine looked like when I got them last time. Good news - a few did hatch (including that silver sussex you were kind enough to admire). What kind of chicks are (hopefully still) inside those eggs?
 
Almost one year ago I bought three EE's from the local feedstore and all three were roosters. I was only going to start and maintain a small flock...then I started incubating! Fortunately, I built a nice sized coop, 10x12, and now have 25 chickens (including three roosters) with five youngs ones in a dog kennel inside the coop and 10 NYD babies in the basement. Of the 15 babies at least 8 of them are roosters! I have thought about building a small coop next to the large one as a breeder coop for the Ameraucana's, but unfortunately of the six wheaton girls I have only two are laying right now...so I guess that means I have time to build the coop! LOL
 

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