We are starting to let the new chickens out a
bit. They were quite reluctant to
leave the coop when we opened the door but they did find their way to the edge
of the woods and seemed to enjoy scratching in the fallen leaves. Hopefully
they will merge into the existing flock easily. We are counting on their larger
size and the presence of a rooster to help with the integration. We lost 2 of
our older birds to a predator several weeks back so we decided that two of
these meat birds would get to remain as layer birds. This breed, Black Jersey Giants, are supposed to
be good mothers and we would like to be able to have them raise some
chicks. They are also supposed to
be good layers thru the winter. We hope they will start laying soon. Once we get them situated into the laying flock, the
other two will go in the freezer. If you remember, we got these 6 meat birds on
Memorial Day and they looked like this:
Two of them are already in the freezer as they were
roosters and started to get rowdy.
Roosters are very territorial and more than one rooster in a small flock
is problematic. So we solved that problem.
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