More Chicks!!!*UPDATED WITH PICS AND VIDEO!*

[lute]

Lute, city slicker question here ... what will you do with the baby chicks when they're ... uhmm ... grown? Will you move them to a hen house? They sure are cute.

the chicks will be moved outdoors to a fenced area with a hen house when they are 5-6 weeks old. IF the weather is nice enough. Unfortinatly, I live too close to neighbors to keep any roosters. since these chicks are straight run i may have to find homes for the ones that turn out to be roosters.

[Freedom]

Will you be able to collect eggs from them???

They are VERY cute! I see them at the farm store, in a couple weeks, along with the baby ducks and baby turkeys etc. I always wonder how many are going to end up . . . on a dinner table!

[critter crazy]

the chicks will be moved outdoors to a fenced area with a hen house when they are 5-6 weeks old. IF the weather is nice enough. Unfortinatly, I live too close to neighbors to keep any roosters. since these chicks are straight run i may have to find homes for the ones that turn out to be roosters.

Too bad you live so far away, I can always use more roosters! I love my roosters!

[lute]

Freedom, yes! In a few months the pullets(hens that havn't laid any eggs yet) will lay big brown eggs. Fortinatly NONE of my chickens will be eaten. I could never eat one of my pets. It would just be wrong. I hate seeing the fryer chicks at feed stores. Poor things are guarenteed to die and probably be eaten.

critter crazy, I wish I lived closer to you too! I'd be visiting your big puppies and lovely chickens all the time!

[critter crazy]

Freedom, yes! In a few months the pullets(hens that havn't laid any eggs yet) will lay big brown eggs. Fortinatly NONE of my chickens will be eaten. I could never eat one of my pets. It would just be wrong. I hate seeing the fryer chicks at feed stores. Poor things are guarenteed to die and probably be eaten.

critter crazy, I wish I lived closer to you too! I'd be visiting your big puppies and lovely chickens all the time!

Yup! dont eat my chickens either, they are for pets and eggs. They all have names!
Gonna be hard comming up with 42 more names, once all my eggs hatch!

[tikeyas_mom]

AWW they are so cute!!!! do you have a special food that you feed them? where are their mother/s?

[critter crazy]

AWW they are so cute!!!! do you have a special food that you feed them? where are their mother/s?

Chicks are fed a special diet called "Chick Starter feed", found at you local Feed store. Chicks purchased from feed stores, or Hatcheries, as day olds, are hatched in Incubators.