New Chicks

As you know, we were given older chickens, along with our baby chicks. To keep laying hens, you have to "refresh" the batch of chickens yearly. They were a bigger breed chickens than the chicks we bought. We decided to let one hen, who threw a fit everytime you took her egg, lay on her eggs and hatch them out. Well, that did not work too well.
After letting her accumulate a few, we went out and one was missing. The next time we went out, another hen was EATING the egg!! So much for letting them "refresh" by themselves. That's when we went and got an incubator. The picture above is the incubator with 12 eggs in it.
It takes 21 days for the eggs to grow into a chick. This is day eight. When they start hatching, around the 25th of May, we will take step by step pictures and invite anyone and everyone to come watch. The little kids should really enjoy this!! So plan on making a trip to Greenwood Acres to see the chicks hatch out!!!!!
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