2022 Chicks - Cackle Experience

[SpicyDisaster]

Is anyone else having issues with poop on your chicks feet? I have my little guys on puppy pads which I change out 2-3 times a day but I find I am still having to wash thier feet to get the poop off as I dont want them to get sores. (I think a few of them might have sores already)

Any Advice?

I found I had the same problem when I used puppy pads so I switched back to pine shavings on day 3 or so. Our last batch we started on pine shavings and I read about the puppy pads later. I'm not a fan so I'll be doing pine shavings going forward I think after day 2. It was nice to see the poos the first couple days on puppy pads to watch for cocci at least.

 

[Tremogg]

We lost our Roo this morning I thought for sure he was getting better he was active and drinking even eating but then in a matter of hours he couldnt stand and he was breathing like the hen did before she died.

All the other hens are actively eating and drinking and of course playing chase with the pine shavings crazy girls. I hope we are done with the losses at this point.

How is everyone elses babies doing? I saw some pics above of babies outside I cant wait until mine are big enough to take outside on warm days!! I even got them a covered pen to play in safely outside!

 

[Aricawithtwins]

I thought I would join here cause my chickies are the same age. We hatched 7 and ordered 3 from local store that did a bigger cackle order.

My journey so far… we put 9 eggs in incubator, 3 Lav. orpingtons, 3 Bielefelders, 3 EE. One stopped develeping day 10 (LO). Another LO never pipped or hatched, egg tops you showed development stopped about day 17. Everyone else hatched. The 3 from cackle are female sexed Buff Orpingtons, maybe a day or two older.

All 3 Bielfelders hatched girls. EE all different colors, the brown is suppose to be a girl (sex link breeding) other 2 unknown. My only Lavender is unknown.

These 3 are my EE, yellow (Sunny), bdown (Ivory), black (Little Jerry)

 

[Aricawithtwins]

apparently all the other cute photos are on my phone. Those were all day 2/3 pics. They Hatched March 29/30.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

We lost our Roo this morning I thought for sure he was getting better he was active and drinking even eating but then in a matter of hours he couldnt stand and he was breathing like the hen did before she died.

All the other hens are actively eating and drinking and of course playing chase with the pine shavings crazy girls. I hope we are done with the losses at this point.

How is everyone elses babies doing? I saw some pics above of babies outside I cant wait until mine are big enough to take outside on warm days!! I even got them a covered pen to play in safely outside!

Aww another tragedy, I'm sorry for your loss! They must have encountered something en route, maybe some rough handling or high/low temps in the travel period that they just couldn't recover from. Thankfully the rest are active and looking good!

I need to get updated pics of the chickies to share, it's been crazy week with a Monday windstorm blowing away one of our irrigation tanks that was supposed to be installed next week. It's down in a canyon about two miles away

Chickies are doing great, they are integrating with the big flock slowly by sharing the run and having their own space to retreat to. We've been taking them out in the morning and bringing them back inside at night. With 31 chicks it is becoming quite the chore so I've moved up the heat lamp to above the roost bars in the grow out pen. I'm hoping they will get used to jumping up there and settle in so they can be outside permanently even if in a separate coop from the bigs. Which is okay, I've got a broody in the broody-break pen in the coop where I'd want the littles to be anyways. She got one look at the chicks when they came out and has been desperate for her own ever since.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

I thought I would join here cause my chickies are the same age. We hatched 7 and ordered 3 from local store that did a bigger cackle order.

My journey so far… we put 9 eggs in incubator, 3 Lav. orpingtons, 3 Bielefelders, 3 EE. One stopped develeping day 10 (LO). Another LO never pipped or hatched, egg tops you showed development stopped about day 17. Everyone else hatched. The 3 from cackle are female sexed Buff Orpingtons, maybe a day or two older.

All 3 Bielfelders hatched girls. EE all different colors, the brown is suppose to be a girl (sex link breeding) other 2 unknown. My only Lavender is unknown.

These 3 are my EE, yellow (Sunny), bdown (Ivory), black (Little Jerry)

Cuties!! The little fluffballs are such an adorable stage. We also have buffs from Cackle, it will be curious to see if they all look alike when they grow up coming from different batches and ages. We had four buffs from the same batch last year and they all have/had unique appearances. Once I called my tiny dino as she was at least a pound or two heavier than the others. She was massive.

 

[nicolewk]

Hello! I thought I would share my recent experience with Cackle for anyone who comes looking. I ordered chicks to be delivered the first week of March, but USPS sent them from Cackle in Missouri, all the way to the state of VIRGINIA instead of towards MINNESOTA where I live! Not Cackle's fault at all, but of course by the time they arrived at my post office, they had all perished.

They scheduled a replacement order to ship a whole month later which I was kind of bummed about but it has worked out well since it's been so cold here. I ordered 20 chicks, they sent 21. 20 made it.

I ordered 15 "Assorted Heavy Females" and 5 "Rare Chick Special"

Still figuring out what breeds they sent! You can read about my guesses (and help identify?) over on this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/baby-chicks-countdown-thread.1510111/post-25581996

Here's a pic of all the little babies:

 

[Tremogg]

Ok new question...So we have been giving our remaining chicks "pool" time (kiddie pool with shavings and sprinkled in is chick starter and chick grit) for foraging and they love it. we have a roost in there as well as water. We have been letting them have this time everyday 2 times a day for about 30 minutes each. It is still to cold for them here to go outside so this was a way for them to get out of the tub set up we have. (We also banded them today). We noticed that the brooder is staying at temp but it seems dark in there and when I went in just now all of them were laying down on the outside of the brooder together. Is this normal?

 

[Iluveggers]

Ok new question...So we have been giving our remaining chicks "pool" time (kiddie pool with shavings and sprinkled in is chick starter and chick grit) for foraging and they love it. we have a roost in there as well as water. We have been letting them have this time everyday 2 times a day for about 30 minutes each. It is still to cold for them here to go outside so this was a way for them to get out of the tub set up we have. (We also banded them today). We noticed that the brooder is staying at temp but it seems dark in there and when I went in just now all of them were laying down on the outside of the brooder together. Is this normal?

Do you have a heat lamp in the middle? If so, and they are congregating on the outsides, it could be too high of a temp. How old are they, and how hot is it directly under the lamp, and at the edge of the brooder?

 

[Tremogg]

Do you have a heat lamp in the middle? If so, and they are congregating on the outsides, it could be too high of a temp. How old are they, and how hot is it directly under the lamp, and at the edge of the brooder?

The brooder has a lamp in the middle See pic below for brooder. They are 10 days old and the temp at the edge is 86 and the temp under the light when they are all in it (we have to keep adjusting it t keep it at around 90) ranges from 87-93.