Posts by ausamerican33

Well - I was just busting to share my "newborn" photos!! :)  Forgot to say - sugar is for added calories.  I just follow the McMurray new chick guide - I've had 4 shipments over the years from them, and it's always worked....

Well - the gro-gel and vitamins came from McMurray - I'm pretty sure Tractor Supply has the vitamins (powdered), but not sure about the gro-gel.  It is this powder stuff that turns to bright green gel balls when you add water -...

Chicks eating gro-gel    Brooder made out of pet bed box, from PetSmart :)

I think you are not supposed to use cedar shavings in a brooder - only pine shavings.  Double check (other people - please pipe in) - but I'm pretty sure pine only.  Make sure you have paper towels to cover the bedding for...

OT - I know the word for eating clay, chalk, etc - it's Pica.  Here's the wikipedia definition:Pica is a medical disorder characterized by an appetite for substances largely non-nutritive (e.g., clay, coal, soil, feces, chalk,...

We just attached the coop to the chick yard - no going back, now.  They are all together - so far, so good.  Although my big hens are looking at the fence like what is that?!    We are waiting for my toddler to fall...

Yuck!  Poor little fella.  I'm sorry that it happened to you, too.

Yes, it is a wood pile. We've been meaning to burn it.  Good idea - we'll burn it as soon as this rain stops here.  I think we're going to join up the baby chicken pen and the big hen coop tomorrow morn.  Tonight.... I'm...

Cleo is an Aracauna.  And if that snake shows it's face again - it will no longer have a face!!  I've been worried about putting the babies in with the big chickens, but I think that will be the lesser of the two evils right...

I am so upset.  2 weeks ago, and this morn, I've gone out to our baby chicks (6 weeks old) and found a dead chick.  It looks like the head and neck had been swallowed, and then nothing else.  We have a brooder inside a 10...