Chickens 4.0

Or maybe it's 5.0. We got our first chicks in March of 2010 and since then we've gone through a number of them. We've lost chickens to raccoons, the neighbor's dog, a mysterious illness, and we even had to kill a rooster from our first batch. But with the rebirth of the farm this spring, we got eight new chicks from BioFuel. We lost one pretty quickly to who knows what but the seven remaining are a mix of Black Sex Links, Light Brahmas, and one Cuckoo Maran.

I feel like I've gotten the chick raising down now. I kept them in a large box/cage for just a couple weeks in the garage but as soon as they feathered out, I moved them out to the coop. It took them a little while to get the hang of getting into the coop before the automatic door closed. For a few nights we'd find all of them huddled outside the door, or some inside with the rest outside. Then for a few nights they overcompensated and were in super early. They have it down now so they're in every night before it closes.

Here they are one of the evenings they made sure to get in early.