New to chicken raising! 🐔

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DobieLover said:
Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.
Super cute picture!
What will you do with the extra cockerels from the hatch?
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Well from my self taught education I've been working on from this amazing site and readings I know that the chick's will need to live indoor for the first 3-4mo... my husband will have time to build us a good chicken run and coop by then out back, and in the meantime they'll be in a brooder pen indoors. So far the plan is the heated garage so we keep them safe from the elements and predators. But we have not found a pen/coop style yet.

Eventually we plan to do some 4-H with the kids in the spring through summer so we will be learning to care for them as a family before they each get their own chick to raise (with our help) for their "Family Flock" project where they are supposed to raise and care for a chicken for a minimum of 90 days and do a presentation on what they learned.

And ultimately we cannot wait for them to begin laying in the spring/summer. We are a family of 6 who loves our eggs. We get a lot from my inlaws but having our own will help, too! 😊
 

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