I started a new batch of chicks this spring--a variety called the Black Sex Link.  The advantage is that you can tell at sight which are male and female.  Unfortunately, we can't keep a rooster in city limits.  The half-grown chicks are such little characters!  My dog Bo doesn't bother them at all.  Of course, he is probably too laid back to protect them, either.  We have red-tailed hawks nesting nearby, and in past years, I have lost chicks to Cooper's Hawks.

When my husband Roy saw them, he said they were my affirmative action chicks.  Black chicks rule!