The Moonshiner's Leghorns

We had some casualties today. So far we have lost 4 of the juvenile birds we just turned loose. They somehow managed to get into the lot where the turkeys and extra roosters were so we are assuming the turkeys killed them. Two were Red x Brown Leghorn cockerels and 2 were Games. Also lost one of the older Olive Egger hens. She died of natural causes. She looks like she just died in her sleep the way she was laying. Poor old girl. So sad day for chickening. 🥺

Plus to beat it all, take a look at our weather for the next week. If the juveniles we turned loose survive all this rain without piling and trying to sleep out in the rain, it will be a miracle. I had thought about catching them all back up but you have to fight feather picking or them being in the rain. So what is the better of two evils? My husband says may only the strong survive, and what makes it, makes it. It’s a good thing I’ve had a good year hatching. 😩


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Go with your husband's plan. If things go bad then you can pout until he lets you hatch more chicks. :thumbsup
 
My weather is looking quite different from yours.....
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Go with your husband's plan. If things go bad then you can pout until he lets you hatch more chicks. :thumbsup
He has agreed to let me keep the incubator on through June. lol I just want to hatch a few chicks from the Silver Ginger and the Brown Leghorn hen, and then we should be good on chicks. Luckily I hatched quite a few Red x Brown Leghorn chicks so we can afford to lose a few of those.
 
He has agreed to let me keep the incubator on through June. lol I just want to hatch a few chicks from the Silver Ginger and the Brown Leghorn hen, and then we should be good on chicks. Luckily I hatched quite a few Red x Brown Leghorn chicks so we can afford to lose a few of those.
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You could of easily mistaken June for July.
I moved my Pepsi-bator and cleaned it yesterday. New location needs an extension cord so I have a heavy duty one coming today.
Not saying I'll use it this year 🙄 but I want to at least run it to see if it's still functioning correctly.
 

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