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Our chicks and ducklings are here!

We got the duck house sanitized and set up as a brooder for them. It's cold here now, but in previous days the older of the chicks have had roam of the duck pen as well and we will move all of them around as needed for space and heat requirements . 

As of now we have the following foul living in our yard:

6 Buff Orpington females and 3 males (Hard to believe this little guy ^^ will grow to be a chubby rooster!!)

6 Barred Rock females

6 Easter Egger females 

5 Dark Brahmas females 

6 White Leghorn females 

9 Cornish Cross females (meat birds)

1 White Polish female (this chick is my pet. ^^ She is the only one I snuck it just for fun! I love her. Too bad she seems to be a fairly timid chick in general)

  

1 Mystery Chick ( ^^who we really hope is female. We believe that she is a Phoenix)

3 Maran females

2 Pekin Ducklings (sex undetermined) 

If you did the math that is 43 chicks and 2 ducks. We lost 3 chicks already, all natural cause/weak chicks. Those Cornish X Chicks won't stick around for long and we will cull 2 of the roosters as well, leaving us with 30 hens and a roo... hopefully! Of course sexing chicks isn't the most accurate of acts so this is all subject to change if any of our "ladies" start crowing. 

I am so happy to have chickens again! I have really missed having them around. The kids have missed them, too. Lots of work to be done in the following weeks to assure that these chickens don't become some predators dinner instead of my own.