Raising Chickens Part II

Well we raised our first brood of chicks, they are nearly 1 year old.  Out of the 10 that we hatched, we ended up with 6 roosters and 4 pullets.  Our six roos are now in other homes and our 4 girls are happy in their nearly too big coop.  LOL  Their coop is 4 feet wide by 6 feet long and their run is nearly twice as big.  Our girls have been laying since about mid September and we decided since they had the last 2 roosters with them for bit that we would collect a few eggs from each of them, over 1 week period we collected one dozen eggs and placed them in the incubator on October 28, 2011.

Sweet Pea

JooJoo

We are now on our second brood.  On November 20th, we had 2 chicks out of 12 eggs. :(  Kinda sad but since they were pullet eggs (young chickens) the chances of hatch weren't that great.  Those chicks are now 10 weeks old and I am ready for them to be outside, but it is just too cold, so they will stay in for a few more weeks.

We believe that JooJoo is a female and Sweet Pea may be a rooster, we are still hoping that Sweet Pea is a girl as well.  These pictures are of them when they were about 3 days old.

We are hoping to get some more eggs this spring, but I would like for one of our girls outside will sit on them and raise them up.