My six year old named the first four chicks we bought (with first, middle and last names) and drew portraits and wrote bios for all.
Then we recvd 32 chicks in the mail and she set out to the garage to do the same...unfortunately, difficult to manage this with 32 milling, mingling chicks so she...
We ordered the 25 feather-footed bantam collection and 4 polish girls. Delivery was scheduled for either April 20, 21, or 22. Shipment arrived on April 21 - everyone was well. We actually received 32 chicks, I belive 26 feather footed, 5 polish and the mystery chick. The Polish looked a bit...
We have 29 chicks that arrived from the hatchery on April 21 and 4 chicks that we purchased on April 12, one of which was hatched that day(Fuzzworth is his/her name) and three that were I would guess at least a week old.
The four have been together from the start and they have gotten on well...
I'm going with a wire-covered run to protect from predators plus a small area (4' x 6') just outside the coop that has a plastic roofing sheet over it to give some amount of rain/sun protection. There will also be food and water in this spot.
This morning we recvd 31 chicks from McMurray (all alive!). They were vaccinated so I am feeding them regular chick starter. We also have four, 1-week-old chicks that were not vaccinated and we were told to feed them medicated chick feed (as soon as the brooder construction was complete the...
I have the same issues - I raise the lamp a few feet in the morning before I leave for work and drop it at night before bed. They seem to be fine with this.
It's not perfect; sometimes in the morning they will be kinda huddled together and in the afternoon they are sometimes a bit too warm...