Hi,
No we did not hatch them we bought them when they were 5 days old or so along with their mother, the rest are doing really well and have grown quite considerably, they are probalbly about 8 weeks old now, we got them at the beginning of August. They are Light Sussex's and you can see the grey/black neck collar feathers coming now on the others. They are all eating well and love bread and corn in the evening, they have pellets to eat in the feeder during the day and plenty of fresh water each day. The shed has plenty of clean sawdust on the floor and plenty of fresh straw in the nesting boxes which they pull out onto the floor and sleep in that.
I clean the shed out each week and each alternate it gets a really good clean and wash out.
The second one that died we had called Sneezy anyway, it did not seem to chirp like the others but made a sneezing sound instead, so may be it had a cold for a couple or weeks.
Elaine