Ken’s Fourth Batch of Chicks This Season
We have hens for eggs. In the past we did a combination of buying day old chicks and encouraging broody hens to hatch out a clutch of chicks. A few years back the price of day old chicks straight run (a mixture of male and females – it’s cheaper) rose to nearly $4 per chick! Ken got serious about setting up a successful breeding situation. Last summer he had a series of batches of chicks …