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2/27/12 at 12:08pm
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Hi my name is Stacey and I just found this website and I am so excited. I feel like I am learning so much already. We have had 6 hens and 1 rooster for almost a year now. We just recently got 4 batams who are about 8 wk.s old. They are getting a little big for the cage we have in the house, so I am wondering when I can put them outside? We live in CO so we are still in a very cold season. I would like to put them in the coop with the older hens because we have a heat lamp, still, but not sure what the hens will do, or the rooster. So what is the next step I should take? I am excited to hear from all my new "friends" lol Thanks so much.

I have 30 (?) chickens, 4 guinea hens, 6 pekin ducks,4 not sure ducks, 3 muscovy ducks, 1 pygmy goat, 2 alpine goats, 1 Emu, 2 mini lops, 5 dogs, 11 cats,2 horses, 2 frogs, 1 parakeet, and 5 children! 

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I have 30 (?) chickens, 4 guinea hens, 6 pekin ducks,4 not sure ducks, 3 muscovy ducks, 1 pygmy goat, 2 alpine goats, 1 Emu, 2 mini lops, 5 dogs, 11 cats,2 horses, 2 frogs, 1 parakeet, and 5 children! 

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post #2 of 15
2/27/12 at 12:13pm

Welcome to BYC, Stacey!

 

~AnnElise

  AnnElise Clark

 

~Chickens are like potato chips, you can't just have one!~ 

 

Silver Laced Wyandotte's, Silkies, Ameraucana's, Easter Egger's, Belgian d'anvers, Leghorns, California Whites, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, Black Australorps, Buff Orpingtons, one Black Jersey Giant rooster, Guinea's, Ducks, and one Sweetgrass turkey tom. 

 

 

 

 

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  AnnElise Clark

 

~Chickens are like potato chips, you can't just have one!~ 

 

Silver Laced Wyandotte's, Silkies, Ameraucana's, Easter Egger's, Belgian d'anvers, Leghorns, California Whites, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, Black Australorps, Buff Orpingtons, one Black Jersey Giant rooster, Guinea's, Ducks, and one Sweetgrass turkey tom. 

 

 

 

 

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post #3 of 15
2/27/12 at 1:12pm

Hello Stacey!           welcome-byc.gif             from Washington State      glad you joined us!

Pure English Orpington Breeder

*Partridge Orpingtons *Spangle Orpingtons *Jubilee Orpingtons *Chocolate Orpingtons *BBS Orpingtons * English Lavenders* 

* Autumn Farm Orpingtons *

  

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Pure English Orpington Breeder

*Partridge Orpingtons *Spangle Orpingtons *Jubilee Orpingtons *Chocolate Orpingtons *BBS Orpingtons * English Lavenders* 

* Autumn Farm Orpingtons *

  

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post #4 of 15
2/27/12 at 1:38pm

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Member of the Delaware Poultry Club,& SDWD. Heritage Delawares,BBS Barred Rock, Non-hatchery Buff Opr. BBS and Lav. Ameruacanas,Easter Eggers and 2 Heritage RIR girls. NPIP# 56-443

Got to many Roos . Lav. Ameruacana, and Barred type EE they are raised in the same pen. PM me if you need more info.

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Member of the Delaware Poultry Club,& SDWD. Heritage Delawares,BBS Barred Rock, Non-hatchery Buff Opr. BBS and Lav. Ameruacanas,Easter Eggers and 2 Heritage RIR girls. NPIP# 56-443

Got to many Roos . Lav. Ameruacana, and Barred type EE they are raised in the same pen. PM me if you need more info.

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post #5 of 15
2/27/12 at 5:49pm
Hi and welcome-byc.gif from Ohio. So glad you joined. I would not put them in with the others just yet. They are still young. If you can put up a divider in the coop so they can see the young ones but can't get to them, plus a heat lamp, it should be OK. Just remember if you put up any heat lamps, make sure there is no way they can fall. Folks have said that fallen heat lamps have caught their barns on fire. Good luck. thumbsup.gif

TIME is the best thing to spend on a child!
Always calibrate your hygrometer before you incubate!!

Home to Black East Indies, Mandarins, Speckled Sussex, Barred Rock, Golden Buffs, Welsummers, Ameraucanas, Black Australorp, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Two Weimaraners, Two beautiful daughters and a great DH who builds whatever I need!

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TIME is the best thing to spend on a child!
Always calibrate your hygrometer before you incubate!!

Home to Black East Indies, Mandarins, Speckled Sussex, Barred Rock, Golden Buffs, Welsummers, Ameraucanas, Black Australorp, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Two Weimaraners, Two beautiful daughters and a great DH who builds whatever I need!

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post #6 of 15
2/27/12 at 7:01pm

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 Crested Ducks                     Common Chicken Practices          Learn more about Avian Influenza

 

 

Helen: Daria, do you have to look at everything in such a negative light?

Daria: Could you possibly be referring to the harsh light of reality?

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post #7 of 15
2/27/12 at 8:11pm

Hi, welcome...    It's good to get familiar with the Search --  and be sure to check (select) "relavency" when you get the results for best answers to your question / subject.

 

The best way I have found to "introduce" them (babies) to the rest of the flock is to put them in a cage (or two) and set them in the middle of the coop or run (during the day)...    put the flock food up against the outside of the cage (cages) and the flock water up against the cage (cages)..   put the "babies" food up against the same side inside their cage / cages..   so that the flock and the "new babies" can "eat together"..  see each other, be close, but safe with the cage between them for up to three days...    also..   you can and should let the babies out of the cage / cages at night, when the rest of the flock is asleep / roosting..     then, if you free range..  keep the babies inside the coop and run, do not let them free range for a few days, until they get used to where they "roost", live, sleep...  

 

Expect some "pecking order" adjustments, some picking on, some bickering, especially when eating..    and it will all calm down in a few days or so....  

 

All the best.    welcome-byc.gif

 

 

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Same "old" Chicken_Pauper, just changed my Avatar, AGAIN!

2 Chronicles 7:13-14

 

http://www.joegriffin.org/Pages/default.aspx   -   http://www.rbthieme.org/  - http://www.gdconline.org/Pages/default.aspx - http://www.gracemissions.org/publications.aspx

 

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post #8 of 15
2/28/12 at 3:57am

Hello and welcome from Southwest Ohio

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post #9 of 15
2/28/12 at 5:54am

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Lucky to have an awesome wife.  Father to three boys.  As for animals...rabbits, chickens and goats, oh my!
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Lucky to have an awesome wife.  Father to three boys.  As for animals...rabbits, chickens and goats, oh my!
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post #10 of 15
2/28/12 at 7:02am

Welcome to BackYardChickens.

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