I’m so excited! I ordered some new chicks, they will be coming in the mail in 8 days. I’ll be getting 20 Brown Leghorns 20 White Jersey Giants and 5 white Plymouth Rocks. The leghorn is a white egg layer, which will be nice to have and they’re a beautiful bird. The Jerseys and Rocks are for making my new meat birds.
I also separated a breeding group of my Partridge Rocks to bring up the number of brown egg layers, I only have 5 hens, I’m going for more like 30!
In the chick shed, I have duck and turkey eggs in the incubator right now. I wasn’t getting a very good hatch rate with the turkeys and the ducks, they’re a little more fragile then the chickens, so I cleaned up the the incubator and I’m monitoring the temperature and humidity. They will be hatching around the time my chicks come in the mail and then they all go in the brooder box.
My brooder box (in it’s previous life) was a light fixture in the neighbor’s kitchen, it works out great, I just need to fix up a better top for it so they stop escaping.
When they don’t need the heat lamp anymore, they go into a new pen to prepare them to go out.
This is out……….I built this little chicken tractor my self and I just pull it and its cousins around so the chicks can eat all the fresh greens they want, so I can eat all the fresh chicken I want!
This is were I keep track of all the peeps, cheeps, chirps and the ins, outs, ups, and downs of my poultry operation! By next spring everything should be running at full speed.
EBet the Poultry Manager.
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