I started with chicks for my daughter when she was five years old on Easter of 2010. Those four chicks all passed on within three years for various reasons. Began the chicken journey all over again with my now fifteen year old daughter, plus five yr old and two yr old sons in Sept 2019, with a mail order of supposedly five female day olds. We just lost our (suprise) Six month old Golden Laced Cochin Roo two days ago and I stumbled upon this site again as I was searching out help with first time incubation. I set, in a crazy chicken lady moment, 22 of his eggs for my first time incubating ever yesterday!! I am so sad he is gone. We are only supposed to have four backyard hens. Which we have. Ooops. The real journey begins now....Guess we will have to move!