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LOVE the one with the Mohawk! OK Peeps (a fitting nickname if there ever was one!), here are some pics... Checking out the new girls! The door frame is hinged to the edge of the coop, and hooked to the chain-link. So if I need to enlarge their section of the run all I have to do is unhook it...

Well, my babies got kicked out of the garage today. I had to scramble a bit to get the coop/run ready for them, inserting the separator inside the coop was easy enough, but I also had to put in a roost for the brooding area, cut a door in the side so they could get in and out and partition off...

Actually that is the most humane way to end it's life, as the brain is destroyed before it can receive any pain. It's like unplugging the phone before the incoming call is even made. Granted, the visual can be a bit unnerving.

I'll say. And here I thought getting seven* instead of the five I was intending was "Chicken Math" *The two extra were for 'attrition'. really!

I'm gonna guess Silkie or maybe Polish

"Avian flu"? Or better yet, Chicken pox!

Now he/she is too cool looking. Does that feather 'Flash' fin last through adulthood?

I would say that is subjective...my sleeping bag is good down to 15F (others go even lower)!

OMg, are those Marans eggs? Are they really that dark??? That's almost black!

Awwwww! Rosa is so cute! Sometimes I really wish their chick coloring carried through to adulthood

Trust me, it is SO much better than the heat lamp method. I changed over after coming home to find the lamp had fallen into the box. The garage was full of smoke and that an entire corner of the cardboard box that they were in was reduced to smoldering ash! Fortunately for everyone nothing had...

I caught one of mine roosting on the edge of the brooder bin a few days ago (they're just two weeks old today!) Just put a wire screen across the top. I used hardware cloth because I had gotten some for another project anyway. - - - - - - - - - - -- My babies have learned that meal worms ARE...

My condolences on your loss, losing you babies is never easy. I'm still waiting for The Almighty Chicken Math to take it's sacrificial 'lamb', so far though I still have all seven.

I've had my babies for a week now (which means they are probably a week and a half old) Under the lamp it is slightly over 85F, at the far end just under 80F. Currently they wander around the entire brooding bin comfortably so I'm thinking somewhere in that range to start. Their bin is in the...

I was reading the MHP thread* and an idea occurred to me (uh-oh!) As the MHP is basically a surrogate brooding hen would it really be necessary to reduce the temperature as the chicks grew? After all, a real brooding hen wouldn't turn down her body temperature as her babies grew, would she? The...

Thanks, I found one on Amazon, I AssUMe that you just use a thermometer to find the best numerical setting?

I placed one of my folding, adjustable height sawhorses across/over the new brooding box and hung the heat lamp from it via a chain. Not only safer but easier to regulate the temperature too. The chicks are huddled in the corner because one of my dogs was checking them out Regarding the...

I have a question about those pads, are they thermostaticaly regulated (in English: can you set the temperature)? How big are they? And what exactly is a DH?

I almost had a disaster today! I got home from a bike ride and found that the heat lamp, which I had clamped on the side of the brooder box had fallen INTO the box (actually, the flap, which I thought I had securely fastened had broken free and folded in) and an entire corner of the box was...