I had to rehome Commodore after he kept ditching us to spend time with the neighbor's chickens. Raising chickens is a heartwarming experience, that is until the first time you add new members to your flock and you realize they really are tiny dinosaurs The pecking order is one of the most brutal parts of the flock dynamic, so you'll want to take steps to minimize the stress to your new chickens and to yourself when you decide to increase your flock. The average is between 16 to 20 weeks or even longer. Sixteen weeks is on the early side of egg-laying. This important point of chicken math is technically called the point of lay, and it can vary by individual chicken and breed. Of the 8 eggs I received, 6 went into lockdown, and now the 6th egg is zipping. At 16 weeks old, pullets (a female chicken under a year of age) are old enough to begin laying eggs. So I'm sitting here staring at my incubator. And they can't all be girls, so I mean, you know, gotta up those chances. #Chronic chicken math plus#Possible Ayam Cemani? Silkie? Only $6 plus shipping? Heck yes! They can't all hatch, you know, being shipped. Scrolling on ebay I found a lot of 6+ eggs with pretty birdos. One was missing feathers, so I had to take it to baby. So cute! And they are totally all girls, you know, to make up for my boys. I went to the feed store to get food, and there were black sex-linked pullets. Dumpling, so I reeeeally only have 9 chickens now, because I mean, the three I hatched could all be boys, too. But I can't tell if the hatched ones are boys, and I can't keep all the boys, so I kept saying I really only had 10 chickens (Admiral and Commodore are my bois.)Īfter a while, the brooder-babies moved outside, and my favorite hen-to-be Dumpling turned out to be Mr. We built the big coop next to the rooster pen, large enough for 30 chickens (because, I mean, what if all 15 eggs hatch?)Įventually, 3 hatched from my incubator experiment a day after my shipped chicks came, so I had 13 chicks in the brooder. Immediately, I was ready to start my flock, so I ordered 10 chicks from My Pet Chicken (what if some don't make it?) and 15 eggs from ebay (they can't ALL hatch, right?) so I could try to hatch a few in a homemade incubator for science purposes with the kids. I started my chicken adventures around Christmas when I was gifted two Roosters from my in-laws.
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