Random menagerie Christmastime hatch-a-long

[2ndTink]

Thanks guys. I’m feeling so grateful that the other chicks have been hatching so well, but sad that Pinecone couldn’t make it out. But this has been my most successful hatch in a long time so I am really glad. But my son is so super super ill today (worried we may have to go to the hospital tomorrow) so it has been kind of a downer day. Thankful that the lavender chickie hatched though and all the others before her! Counting my blessings!!

I hope your son feels better soon.

 

[Slothinc]

What are you going to do with all those chickies? Keeping them all?

I wish you luck with your son, he can recover and play with baby chickies

Unfortunately no, I won’t be able to keep them all. I don’t have the space, sadly. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to sell babies in the winter, but surprisingly I have had a lot of interest in them. I am going to keep only the ones that have the best qualities and sell the rest.

Because there are not a lot of people with chicks right now, I have had a few people contacting me who had a small hatch where only one or two survived and they needed some buddies. So far I have sold 3 babies, and 5 more are spoken for. Of the ones that have hatched, I’m only planning to keep Tinsel (paint NN), Peppermint (black shipped egg), and Sugarplum (lavender shipped egg). So all the other hatched babies are spoken for.

I have a big hatch happening after Christmas, and have had some interest in that as well, which is great. I’m so glad that I won’t have to grow out a ton of chicks! Any that don’t sell will be grown out and sold as pullets/given away as cockerels in the spring.