Eight weeks ago tomorrow, I bought 10 x 3-5 day old chicks. My husband and I were able to hold 4each in our hands and the vendor held the other two until we put them in our carrier.
Last week, I thought I heard the last part of a cockaDOODLE, two days in a row! This morning it was a definite cockadoodle - admittedly not the rasping mature crow, but an unmistakable crow.
Is this rather young, or normal? They were bought as table birds and I hope to let them have at least 16 weeks of life, before saying bye-bye to the cockerels.
Although hatched in Gloucester, the eggs apparently came from France. We were told they were RIR-type and Sussex-type. The RIR-type look similar to favarolles, I think, but the Sussex are all white.
Just curious really.
cathangirl.
