The local feed store purchased some late season chicks, and got tired of feeding them after 6 weeks; they were originally $2.99, but they marked them down to $0.50/each. So I bought dozens and dozens.
Such a deal! I didn't have to feed them for 6 weeks, no shipping mortality, and they were common breeds that I like: barred rock, white leghorn and rhode island red hens. So I set up the brooder and I'm raising them for sale next spring as laying hens.
The brooder is the one that I wrote about building a few years ago, and it is still going strong. It can easily brood out a couple of hundred small chicks, maybe 150 or so as they get larger. It's no big deal to keep chickens in the winter; once they're feathered out they keep themselves pretty warm. A draft free roosting area, water and food, and they're good to go. this brooding area has a door to an outside chicken run, and when they get big enough they'll have access.
Love bargain chickens!
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What a deal, good for you.
Are they sexed I suppose? Great deal ! I'd have cleaned them out too :)
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