Saturday, February 13, 2010

New Baby Chicks!

We just received some new baby chicks this week and thought I'd share some pictures. We love having baby chicks, this is our third year. These chicks are fresh from Murray McMurray Hatchery. Last spring we incubated some eggs and hatched around 6 chicks. And also last spring our hens decided to get broody and hatch their own chicks too (30 chicks). Great experiences for us! With our older chickens we are getting around 14-17 large brown eggs a day out of 18 hens. The kids are in 4H and need new chickens for the county fair this summer. Now we just need to figure out how to add to our chicken coop so we have room for another 25 chickens. If anyone has any ideas on how to do this cheaply, please let us know. We ordered 4 different varieties, we even ordered some Aracana chickens that lay colored eggs (can't wait to see these eggs in 6 months). AREN'T THEY CUTE!