Well we seem to have done it again! The first young chicks we brought last year for our supply of eggs resulted in us having one hen and four cockerels, our neighbours luckily gave us another four hens and a cockerel as a gift, so after dispatching the surplus cockerels we had a full freezer as we had also raised several broiler chickens for meat.
Earlier this year we brought another six young chicks to increase our supply of eggs just in case we were unsuccessful in hatching our own and what have we got??? Another five definite cockerels and a can't quite decide yet!
Working on the 50/50 ratio of cockerels to hens that everyone quotes when talking about getting young chicks, we are well out! So with the broilers we also have at present it looks like another full freezer again this year and a return trip to the bird market to try our luck again!
I am as lucky picking baby hen chicks as I was at picking lottery numbers!!