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post #1 of 14
6/29/12 at 10:12am
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Hello, my name is Jaymie, and I love my chickens :)

I'm a mom of 3, 16yrs, 14yrs, and 5 yrs. My 5 yr old is my official chicken helper, and takes claim to any babies we get. She then promptly brings them into her clubhouse and "feeds" them plastic food from her little kitchen. So far theres been no poop on her carpet, but I know the day is coming, and I'll be her official cleaner...lol

 I'm new to chickens this year, in May.  I was lucky, and started out with mostly laying hens, and our 4 babies are all old enough to not need lamps and eat layer mash. I look forward to chicks maybe next year. We currently have 24, with 9 being roo's. We plan on keeping only one  rooster though. My chickens are more like pets, they each have names, and their own personalities. The roosters are named mostly soup, nugget, stew...with no one name permanent to any bird, except Buddy, our keeper of the flock :) he's just a baby himself, but watching him grow in comparison to his sister is amazing! I look forward to gaining lots more knowledge...I know theres a wealth to be given, and especially to a newbie like me :) 

Oh! and we also have 2 ducks, new to them this spring as well!

We are located in Alberta, Canada.

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post #2 of 14
6/29/12 at 12:39pm
Hi and welcome to BYC from northern Michigan big_smile.png

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              Can anyone tell me, how many are too many chickens?

 



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Home of the world's cutest dachshund, one crazy blue heeler, two cats,
              one fat pony, and many (but not too many!) chickens

              Can anyone tell me, how many are too many chickens?

 



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post #3 of 14
6/29/12 at 4:34pm

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Dorothy: The woman keeps a chicken in her home, how normal can she be?
Rose: I kept a chicken in my home.
Dorothy: You see my point?
The Golden Girls "Long Day's Journey Into Marinara"

 

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post #4 of 14
6/29/12 at 4:44pm
Hi and welcome-byc.gif from Ohio. So glad to have you aboard. Congrats and have fun. thumbsup.gif

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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 #5 of 14
6/30/12 at 9:37am

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post #6 of 14
6/30/12 at 5:46pm

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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 14
6/30/12 at 11:38pm

Hello and welcome to BYC!

 

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post #8 of 14
7/1/12 at 5:12am

Howdy, from The Bluegrass State!  So glad to have you with us.

 

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Did I hear you correctly? Did you say you have baby chicks now eating layer mash? If correct one really should be feeding them starter/grower food till they reach laying age then switch them to layer feed. It's bad for small chicks to eat layer food.

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post #9 of 14
7/1/12 at 9:29am
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You heard correctly...my "babies" will start laying in the fall. I also feed them all oats and let them free range. 

They aren't seperated from my layers, and are past the stage of being picked on because their smaller...

what will layers mash do to them? it would be very hard to seperate them right now...

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post #10 of 14
7/1/12 at 10:15am
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You heard correctly...my "babies" will start laying in the fall. I also feed them all oats and let them free range. 

They aren't seperated from my layers, and are past the stage of being picked on because their smaller...

what will layers mash do to them? it would be very hard to seperate them right now...

 

Layer feed may lead to early death. It has about three times the percentage of calcium required by chicks and prolonged use will cause kidney failure as they grow.

 

 

When you have young chicks and or pullets which have not yet reached laying age they only need 1% calcium.  Most of the common 'layer' feeds contain 3.5 - 5.9% calcium. In feeding anything in excess of the 1% it is excreted through the kidneys and can become a stress which in turn may cause Visceral Gout in which urates and are then deposited on the heart, liver and kidneys.  This makes stones form in the ureters and can block the flow of urine from the kidneys.  This pressure can then destroy the kidneys.  Uremic poisoning develops and urates are returned to the blood, then gets deposited on the organs.

 

 

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