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I can't expand the brooder at the moment as it's just an inside bin. I did separate the one with the red spot and put one of the other smaller ones in with it. This seemed to solve the issue. Good news is the coop will be done this weekend so they won't be in the brooder after that. (if the red...

I keep telling the boy that he better make friends with that rooster in the group.. XD it'll be at least a 10 pound bird if not 12 when fully grown from being a cochin. Not that they are known to be mean.. but if he nips at or chases one of the hens it may be a mess around and find out moment...

The thing is.. the girl just doesn't care, it's not that she leaves or not leaves them. She just doesn't have any interest in them at all. The one that seems fixated is the more trained one (older) but I'd had to do hard cut offs with his commands to get him to even leave the room the brooder is...

So I have three dogs that have grown up with cats and they are fine with them (two border collies and a newfoundland). The one border collie doesn't care, she can be left with the chicks all day and would rather look at anything else or just sleep near-by. My boy though.. he's over excited about...

So I have 7 chicks, they near about have full feathers by this point and one of the smaller hens is getting picked on to where there is a small red spot now. What can I do about this before it gets worse? They are still in the brooder box as my coop isn't quite finished. But would it be better...

Over a week and still all seven. Starting to get the feathers on them now. Itty bitty feathers.

Dusty is being introduced to the chicks. Slowly. He's unsure as to what they are. No pray drive but I'll be reaffirming his hold, laydown and several other commands just to be sure. My other border collie doesn't care at all about them.. haha. She's too lazy.

Nope! I was trying to think of the name for the roo at least cause he'll stand out for sure. Though one is a fair bit lighter than the rest so that one may also stand out. I was going to give it a few days to see if they all made it first. I've done this song and dance before.. >.< Though these...

We got one extra from what we ordered and I assume the blue dot one is the roo I had ordered.. XD no deaths on arrival and all seem healthy. They had a heat pack in there too so I'm sure that really helped!

Well I have everything to get started. Now to wait till tomorrow when they should be at the post office. Brooder plate, heat lamp (a ceramic lamp too just in case.. cause I got a super large bin. But I'll be blocking half of it off till I ensure they understand eating and drinking). Temp gauge...

You have no idea, I've been waiting years. I took care of my house mates flock back in GA and it renewed my want.. and I had to wait. But I doubt we'll be moving any time soon so we decided we may as well.

I'll be getting plenty of pictures. I've waited several years to be able to do this finally haha. (watch my roo be the ugliest of them all.. )

I figured documenting from day one would be neat and people might enjoy it. They'll be coming in Tuesday and there should be 6 likely a few extra). All of them will be silver lace cochin so that'll be interesting. I started to get a mixed flock but the hatch dates weren't lining up so I went...

I didn't even think about the naming thing. I could get a few types of cochin if they'd do well. From what I had been reading they should be fine and if I'm super worried I can hook up a fan. But I have a lot of trees and the fence is covered in bushes for shade as well. (at worse I can open the...

So finally got a coop and run all sorted but now I am second guessing the chicken breed I have been looking at for some time now. My plan was to get 5 hens and a roo to start with. All silver lace cochin. But I'm second guessing my plan? I thought these would be a good starter chicken to work...

Oh no I've checked several times for the chickens.. it's not enforced. It's just a tiny town without much going on. Shoot I was told get some ducks too the last time I asked and was told the police weren't going to go answering a call for someone saying their neighbor has chickens on their own...

More will have to wait for us to move. We're not SUPPOSED to have chickens here but there are so many people with chickens and even town hall was like.. it's not a big deal just keep them in your yard and not in the roads. But i'll for sure ask. Ideally.. I want to make it to where I can take...

Oh i forgot about craig's list. I should look there JUST in case.

Oh yeah that's a lot of food for thought, I actually got a pack of graph paper just for this project haha. I've always planned to measure twice (or four times) cut once.. that's my biggest hiccup in building any of my plans as I fear messing up something :'D shame home depot is a town over...

Ours does have that at least. :D Thankfully.. haha. It's just a lot and I'm just overwhelmed on where to start and a little disheartened in that I'm starting several months later than I wanted to.. I never dreamed it'd be so rough to find someone locally to do an odd job like this during the...