My chicks in the brooder have served their purpose. It is now time for me to give them to my neighbor. They were good practice and I must rehome them soon before I come too attached to them, I really like the yellow one. But there is that unknown factor of boy or girl. :) I sexed them by watching the Dirty Jobs Part One Video with Mike Rowe. There is a part one and part two on You Tube. I highly recommend watching them, it was very fun and informative and filmed at Murray McMurray where I ordered my chicks from. I'm fairly sure that there is three girls and one boy. My neighbor wants a rooster so we will let him have them. We have the heat right, put more wire over the side where they could stick their heads out. Yep, that was a quick fix, I looked over and saw a head out and a dog and cat watching so cut a piece of construction screen to put in front of the chicken wire. I pictured finding a headless chick pulled as far through the wire as it could get so fixed it ASAP. A couple of pics of them in the brooder. The first day they slept mostly but the second they wandered around much more.
I will give them to my neighbor this afternoon and sanitize everything for the next batch due in two weeks.
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