There here! Monday March 25th I got an early morning call from the post office telling me my chicks were ready for pick up. As I stood in line I could hear the my girls cheeping in the back. When the postal worker brought the box to the front I heard a couple moms behind me whisper to their kids “there are baby chicks in that box!”
They are all nice and warm, packed tight in a box, thirty chickens in all, six different varieties.
They quickly made themselves at home in the new brooder box Chocolate and Dadzoo (mostly Chocolate) built!
In case you are curious, these are the varieties we got:
Delaware (hens)
Buff Orpingtons (hens)
Golden Campines (hens)
Araucana (hens)
Speckled Sussex (2 roosters)
Silver Spangled Hamburgers (3 roosters)
You can see what they look like here: Murry McMurray
Why different kinds? Are they all for eggs?
Yes, they are for eggs, there are brown, white and green egg layers, also I like the variety and the different colors in the fancy/heirloom breeds.
Do the eggs taste different?
Not really, they will taste a little different because they will be free range, but they are just a basic egg on the inside.
I just learned my something new for the day. 🙂
The yolks will be a really dark yellow/orange, lower in cholesterol and high in vitamin A, because there diet will be natural, green plants and bugs 🙂
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