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Baby Chicks?

We plan on having our chickens do what chickens do best...hatch more chickens! Chickens were made to hatch their own and raise them. Of course chickens today don't actually do it on most farms but for us we want to let the chickens do what comes naturally to them. Of course this means less work for us as well. The more the birds do the less responsibility we have. And of course we trust that God created them to be self sufficient so why not let them do what they were intended to do in the first place.


We thought Ms. Fancy Feet pictured above was going to be our first to try and hatch some baby chicks for us. She was enjoying the eggs and trying to snuggle up with them but after 2 days she still hadn't actually taken responsibility for them and one of them actually got broken from one of the roosters. For now no hatched ourselves baby chicks. We hope to get a mama nesting soon! It takes 21 days for them to hatch so we need to get them started. Two to four eggs a day just isn't enough. We need to get these girls raising us some more laying hens and of course any new roosters will just become dinner. In the mean time we might grab some chicks from the local farm store. But first we need to get these chickens settled and adjust to caring for them.

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