Going Down A Familar Path!

Got home yesterday afternoon, to a telephone message saying our meat chicks were ready and waiting in a box for us!  So I turned the oven off where I had started to cook Freddie the cockeral, and we headed off.  Never been to Poulet's hatchery before, but we found it, and it was still daylight, so got back home quick and whipped the chicks into the brooder shed.

This is them.  Mind you, they don't take up as much space as the 300 did last year!  There are only 65 here!

We put 2 trough feeders in the brooder and an egg tray with food on and 3 drinkers in there.  They quickly found the egg tray of food, but it took them a couple of hours to find out what the trough was for!

They hadn't drunk anything for a bit either, so I dipped a few beaks in the water, and they started drinking, then some others copied them.  They had a good night's sleep.  I check on them every hour until I go to bed, just to make sure they are warm and cosy!

This is one of the white JA757's (romantic name eh??? lol)  they are the quickest growing of the 3 types we've got.

This one is one of the brown Coloryields which will mature a week or 2 later, and,

These are 2 of the Mastergris which will be greyish in colour and the latest maturing at 12-14 weeks.

They are so sweet though, it seems bad to be talking about eating them, and please don't think I am being cruel, but I would rather eat something that I have grown myself, so that I know it has had a good life, fresh air and plenty of good food.

You never know what happens in the big farms where everything is so impersonal!

 I do try to please my customers, and I think most of the people who have bought the POL's are happy!  I only have 36 left now, and feedback from people has so far been good!  I had a couple came today to buy some chooks.  They were only going to start with 2 as they were a bit worried about how their cats would react, but then the man saw the Goldlines and asked if he could have 2 of them and a white one as his wife liked the white ones!  I told him the goldlines were older than the others as they are from my original laying flock from last august, but he said he didn't mind!  So I sold him two of them and a white Amberlink!!!!

I had intended to keep 2 or 3 dozen of the new Amberlinks, but if people will still keep knocking at the door, well….. who am I to turn away a good customer???? lol.  So what I'll have to do if they all go, is buy a few more POL's from someone else until my next lot of layer chicks arrive in a few weeks time!!!

I hope you like the new pictures, and please keep watchng to see how my second lot of day old chicks do.  Hopefully I won't make the same mistakes as I did with the last lot, and as these ones won't live as long as the layers, I shouldn't need another wardrobe as a hospital!!!!!