Raising 400 chicks

[Alyssa-Bee]

It's so fun to just look at so many chickens! Thank you for all the great photos!

 

[LeNeveu2]

This chicken in the fore ground. What is the breed of this bird? I love this coloring.

 

[Sally PB]

Thanks for the photos!

 

[DallasChickyMomma]

I didn't read all the comments, so forgive me if I missed something. The local place I get my meat birds from says 10% mortality rate (usually the first couple days of course) is about par for the course. 8 out of 400 is fantastic, IMO.

 

[aart]

This chicken in the fore ground. What is the breed of this bird?

Probably an Easter Egger.

 

[howdyitsmia]

I didn't read all the comments, so forgive me if I missed something. The local place I get my meat birds from says 10% mortality rate (usually the first couple days of course) is about par for the course. 8 out of 400 is fantastic, IMO.

I didn't read all the comments, so forgive me if I missed something. The local place I get my meat birds from says 10% mortality rate (usually the first couple days of course) is about par for the course. 8 out of 400 is fantastic, IMO.

We ended up with about 25, they started to smother each other when we moved them to the new tunnel. But I think that’s still not too bad

 

[howdyitsmia]

View attachment 2513302 This chicken in the fore ground. What is the breed of this bird? I love this coloring.
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She is indeed an Easter egger. She’s just rather unique looking

 

[Mellowmalt]

thanks for showing your birds. They look great. Can I a would many use the very top egg laying boxes? I was just looking at them thinking they look taller than me with hardly any perch space to hop up. I know they are still too young now and those look like they've been in use a while I've just never seen them that tall before.

 

[howdyitsmia]

thanks for showing your birds. They look great. Can I a would many use the very top egg laying boxes? I was just looking at them thinking they look taller than me with hardly any perch space to hop up. I know they are still too young now and those look like they've been in use a while I've just never seen them that tall before.

Somehow they managed to get on top of it it at one point, so I think they have their ways. The older ones do prefer the middle boxes though.

 

[Kirkwooder]

Very cool thread!!! Thank you for sharing your story.