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***51 Chicks Grow Up***

***51 Chicks Grow Up***

*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* From the time the assorted baby chicks first arrived from Stromberg’s Hatchery….. …..to recently…when I let them loose in the (previously empty) Maran  chicken coop….. The chicks have grown and feathered out…they’re still babies…but they are much bigger….. When they first arrived…the babies needed a heat lamp…and a very warm draft-free environment….. They were all huddled in our multi-purpose wading pool…(which has seen a number of different baby species…who have grown & graduated…

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~Saving A Chick-let~

~Saving A Chick-let~

**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** In my last post I wrote about incubating poultry eggs….. I’ve got an incubator full again, and they are “supposed” to start hatching in a couple days….. I do have good news to share….. My older daughter and I were actually successful at helping one cheeping chick out of her shell….. …..(honestly…that hardly ever has a happy ending)….. But this time it did!….. I followed the suggestions in the article I sited in…

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