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Hi all! Trying to catch up on how things are going for everyone :) I continue to be grateful for the MHP concept and for this thread, when I was chatting about chickens with a friend and she's brooding chicks the old fashioned way, she expressed concern about fire. They've just moved in to...

Thank you @bruceha2000! This is only about half of them, it's hard to get pics of all 19 LOL! They are all over the place so quickly! And several with "bathing" in the pine shavings *eye roll* We let them outside yesterday for a bit and U thought I might be able to get some more pics...nope...

@COChix They really do grow so fast!! It's amazing! What else is amazing is their uncanny ability to find danger ;) Yes they are fearless for sure! Eeeek ;O

I just a went down to lock up the coops and the babies were huddled down in the corner quiet as mice :D No more MHP babies!!

Thank you!

Finally got some good shots of my 5 weekers :D

Okie dokie! Will do :D

Chicks made a move this weekend :D We wracked our brains for 2 weeks to try and figure out a way to make a run for them attached to the main coop, but couldn't figure out how to do it and be able to keep the bigs and littles separate, so because of our main coop set up it just wasn't going to...

((Hugs)) I pray over all of my chickens regularly <3 They're in His hands and I need constant reminding of that. Yes we do what we need to in order to keep them safe/healthy but ultimately they're His creation. Re: buying medicine, totally get it too ;) But IF it's something that the medicine...

Bwahahahaha!!!!

Closed the bigs out of the coop and let the littles out, what was the first thing they went after? The dang egg shell! Ugh. You little farts!! One got several "pecks" worth before we got them rounded back up. They were eating it off the floor (it's mounted too high for them to eat it...

Oh no!!! ((Hugs)) I'm so sorry that happened to you!

@bruceha2000 Thank you for the help! I should take pics of our set up so y'all know what I'm working with, I'm trying to figure out how to make a separate run for the littles, more so how to keep them separate from the bigs since theyre all in the coop together...hard to explain the set up so...

Oh and also-my hubby told me the portal is actually 4x6 so j must have read about your experience earlier in the thread and just forgot LOL! @aart

That sounds like a good plan! I had a dream last night that we let the littles out and all 19 of them SCATTERED all over that one acre pasture and there was a hawk waiting :O It was a disaster and I woke up with my heart pounding! I wonder if I need to rig up a pen that limits how far they can...

Thank you! That's a good idea to shut the bigs out and let the littles get the lay of the land first, so just do that and make sure they get it and then let the bigs in?

@Blooie Wow what an ordeal!!! And what a cute lil thing! Awesome save :D Hope he's still doing well!

Agreed. We did the same thing with one of ours umbilical cord, oops! Live and learn ;)

Well my chicks are 4 weeks old tomorrow...we're thinking about integrating (maybe I need to start another thread? If so just say the word, I just thought since everyone in here already knows about brooding in the coop and that the chicks have been out there since the start that it might make it...

Also I have a sick hen, thinking she might be egg bound, if you want to weigh in its over on the illness forum :(