Should i get new chicks or wait?

[Lgbchickie]

In April were incubating some eggs that will hatch in may for school and I don't know if I should enter the raffle for one and get two to be its friends or just wait for a broody hen in the summer because our pullets are mostly broody breeds being an Australorp, a Rhode island red, a Dominique, A Buff Orpington /Gold laced Wyandotte mix, and a blue Plymouth/ Gold laced Wyandotte mix and I'm pretty sure most of those are broody breeds so I don't know if I should wait or not

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Um….I have no patience and my answer is always “more chickens” no matter what the question is so…I say don’t wait. I am sure the rest of the enablers here will agree with me

 

[debid]

Well, if you get a hatchling from the raffle, it's a coin flip whether you get a little cockerel chick or a pullet. This is a big consideration from my POV. I'd rather buy 3 sexed pullets than to buy 2 and get one free that has a 50% chance of being a male I cannot keep. And, buying the sexed pullets means I can choose to do so when it's easiest for me to add them to the flock. However, that's my situation. You have to consider yours.

 

[Echelontheory101]

Um….I have no patience and my answer is always “more chickens” no matter what the question is so…I say don’t wait. I am sure the rest of the enablers here will agree with me

Seconded! If eggs are important to you to consider the amount of laying you'll get before their first molt, I usually plan my chicks around that. The earlier in the winter or spring the longer laying you get before first molt. I do chicks in the fall so they start laying february or march and i get the entire spring/summer of first season production before they molt in the fall. If that isnt really top priority though then id say if you have the set up and time now I say go for it haha