Really cool surprise today. Our production breed layer hatched out 11 chicks which was a total surprise! We didn’t even know it.
To be honest we haven’t been doing head counts because we have a lot of birds and we don’t lock up our coop at night. At least for now our predator problem has been nullified by our dogs.
The best part is that our two high prey dogs (German Shepard andBorder collie) have been in the same pasture but not harming these chicks.
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