My chicks are 7 weeks old and 1 day today, I have 3 Buff Orpington Pullets and 2 Roosters, I also have Two Easter Egger Pullets.
Apparently selling chickens is harder then I thought, me, the person that happens to over think thinks, I thought this chick business, would be nice, and oh.. peaceful. NO-NO, it is not. I thought chicks would sell like *snaps fingers* that! I still love the experiance though, but I thought I would clean out the brooder a couple times a week, oh and the chicks can't get their food and water so messy in 15 mins? Boy, was my world turned upside down (or right side up) when I got my chickies! I started out with just Buff's, but 4 weeks later, I went to a poultry swap, where I sold some of my 16 BUff's because I couldn't keep them due to land. I got Easter Eggers, lets just say, they aren't very tame... They run from me. I have no idea what to do! My little chickies I thought, couldn't get cocci, I kept their brooder so sparkling (not), those things are poop machines! Well guess what, the chicks got cocci, and I flew into action and had it treated in a week or so, that was around 4 weeks, and they went outside in a nice little run in the day and came in at night.
I went on vaction to see family for a week, my family took care of them, they moved them into the mudroom.
When I got back, the mudroom door is open, and a Rooster is running out the door... That's around 5 weeks. That week, we worked on a chicken coop.. But then we decided not too.
So we made them a coop out of plastic totes, they stayed outside, and that was 6 weeks.
But now: 7 weeks!
I foound out somehow their coop was getting wet inside, I didn't see anyway for water to get in, and then this freak storm is going on this week, and our yard currently looks like a pond in some places, so we moved them inside, into 3 totes instead of two:
This is working so far, the cat sleeps on that shelf, and she is scared of the chickens. Here's evidence:
The chicks are good today, and here is some pictures of my Easter Eggers:
(Maybeline is multi-colored, Hedwig is white)
May is a pullet and Hedwig I think is, thanks to some help from BYC friends.
That's it for today, just have to go take care of the chicks for the night!
Apparently selling chickens is harder then I thought, me, the person that happens to over think thinks, I thought this chick business, would be nice, and oh.. peaceful. NO-NO, it is not. I thought chicks would sell like *snaps fingers* that! I still love the experiance though, but I thought I would clean out the brooder a couple times a week, oh and the chicks can't get their food and water so messy in 15 mins? Boy, was my world turned upside down (or right side up) when I got my chickies! I started out with just Buff's, but 4 weeks later, I went to a poultry swap, where I sold some of my 16 BUff's because I couldn't keep them due to land. I got Easter Eggers, lets just say, they aren't very tame... They run from me. I have no idea what to do! My little chickies I thought, couldn't get cocci, I kept their brooder so sparkling (not), those things are poop machines! Well guess what, the chicks got cocci, and I flew into action and had it treated in a week or so, that was around 4 weeks, and they went outside in a nice little run in the day and came in at night.
I went on vaction to see family for a week, my family took care of them, they moved them into the mudroom.
When I got back, the mudroom door is open, and a Rooster is running out the door... That's around 5 weeks. That week, we worked on a chicken coop.. But then we decided not too.
So we made them a coop out of plastic totes, they stayed outside, and that was 6 weeks.
But now: 7 weeks!
I foound out somehow their coop was getting wet inside, I didn't see anyway for water to get in, and then this freak storm is going on this week, and our yard currently looks like a pond in some places, so we moved them inside, into 3 totes instead of two:
This is working so far, the cat sleeps on that shelf, and she is scared of the chickens. Here's evidence:
The chicks are good today, and here is some pictures of my Easter Eggers:
(Maybeline is multi-colored, Hedwig is white)
May is a pullet and Hedwig I think is, thanks to some help from BYC friends.
That's it for today, just have to go take care of the chicks for the night!
), I am making a makeshift shelter for the chickens in case it rains while they are out, I was thinking maybe I could make it into a coop.. We'll see!
