The fate of our first-gen chickens.

[Icantraisechickenshelp]

Hi guys!I hope some of the kind people from "what should we do" see this update!

We have decided what will happen to our lovely chickens. We will keep the ten chickens but we will expand their living area gradually as they grow. When they start laying eggs (at 16 weeks, which is only 2 weeks away!!!) We will set up boxes for them, and their 16th birthday will be a... Tournament. Literally for their life. There will be memory tests and mazes for them, and the losing chickens will be killed for meat while to prevailing four chickens we will keep until February, when we will get another few chickens to start up our second generation of chickens. Only less this time, for we couldn't handle so many.

That is the fate of our current ten chickens. It's not the best, but it's. Certainly a start for the end of the first generation. My reason for this post is to give a look back at the life of our original 18 chickens and how we came to this...

RIP 1st generation. We will forever remember you. The experience of raising chickens had a lot of mistakes and prevalence, and now it has come to a end. So excited for the second-gen!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

So... out of 18, you have 10 left. When they start laying you are going to cull 6 and keep only 4? And since this first experience was such a.. um... learning experience, you are going to get more in the spring, is that correct? I'm a little boggled or confused.

 

[Icantraisechickenshelp]

So... out of 18, you have 10 left. When they start laying you are going to cull 6 and keep only 4? And since this first experience was such a.. um... learning experience, you are going to get more in the spring, is that correct? I'm a little boggled or confused.

I think you will understand more here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-should-we-do.1320322/

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I read that but am still a bit confused. Anyway, no worries, good luck to you.