Baby Chicks

In learning about baby chicks I found out they need to go outside periodically to learn to hunt and peck! So off to the garden we went. It's currently the only safe place for the babies to be. They were not so successful at identifying bugs maybe they will do better on their next journey outdoors! We have also determined they need to be moved to a bigger place within the next week because they are too big for their box. This is also something I wish I would of realized when I purchased these chickens.

My final comment is that these are the last Rhode Island Reds we will probably get. Since Wayne wants us to concentrate on the Production Reds. We are averaging 7 eggs a day from 9 chickens. We expect to get 49-56 eggs a week from these birds so we will be ordering some more Production Red chicks from Ideal soon unless we can purchase some more pullets. We are still trying to decide if we want "farm fresh" eggs or "organic eggs". For us it is going to come down to a numbers game. We hope to have about 100-150 chickens total. Which will produce roughly 77-115 ish eggs a day or 539-805 eggs a week. We consume about 3 dozen a week so this leave a few eggs to sell. So we are going to compute the costs of organic vs non-organic eggs and the profit margin, if we can sell about 50 dozen eggs a week. Right now we are selling our extra eggs for $3 a dozen! We should have 1-2 dozen extra week until our chicks start laying or unless we buy some more pullets! Right now we have 2 dozen eggs available reply to the post if your interested and I'll bring them to church, co-op, bells or come on by the Hill!

Happy farming!