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I can’t believe I haven’t updated you all on our layer chicks we purchased a little over 16 weeks ago.  Unfortunately we hit a bit of a problem … actually it was a pretty BIG problem.  Out of our 100 layers we purchased, we now unfortunately have only 40 left … no one could tell us why our chicks were dying; we tried scrubbing our coops, giving them all the muthi (medicine) that they required and nothing was working.  It wasn’t until the 8^th week when we changed their feed from the chick mash to the grower’s mash that we noticed a MASSIVE improvement with the chicks’ health.  After changing the food we have not had any more deaths and they are all looking healthier than ever … hooray.  My “sources” within the chicken feed industry (their identity cannot be revealed) have advised that there was a batch of feed that was lower in calcium; whether this was the reason why our chicks died … we will never know now.

Ohhh well; even with 40 layers we will still be able to achieve all the things we had originally set out to accomplish but on a smaller scale this first time through.  We live and learn and are much wiser through this experience.