Dmontgomery
Songster
and more to come!
Way back in March, I asked my wife if I needed to build a new brooder. We gave our old one away at the end of last summer. She told me we wouldn't be getting any new chicks this year, unless one of the hens went broody. Then she could raise them herself in the coop.
In April, a friend asked me to build her a new coop. About the time I was finishing it up a couple weeks ago, the friend ordered 25 BR chicks. Naturally my wife immediately decided that we also needed new chicks. Can't have somebody else with new babies, and us not getting any. So she ordered 25 chicks from McMurray. At 7am on Thursday I picked our new chicks from the post office. 5 Black Giants, 5 Buff Cochins, 15 Brown Egg Layers, and the ever popular, 1 Rare Exotic something. All the chicks arrived healthy and seem to be doing great. They are all very active and consuming large quantities of starter feed!
A little after noon on the same day, my wife arrived home from helping with the VBS at church, with a box containing 3 Frizzled Black Cochins and 2 frizzled Buff Cochins. Apparently there is a breeder about 20 miles from here who will actually deliver the chicks to you. The story I got was the lady just happen to be in the area delivering a big order and knew we might need more chicks. I don't exactly believe this story, but there isn't much I can do about it. These chicks appear to be 1-2 weeks old, because their feathers have started to fill in a bit.
This will about double the size of our flock, but I'm confident we have room for them. I have 768 sqft of coop and run area combined with 384 sqft under roof. The chickens free range sunup to sundown over several acres of land. I have 80' linear of roosting space, so nobody should feel crowded.
We also have another RIR who just went broody on 9 eggs and a guinea hen adding eggs to her nest each day. She's up to 12 now, so she should start setting in another week or so. The last RIR to go broody has 8 chicks about 7 weeks old she is just starting to wean.
I may have to start buying feed by the pallet. And I guess I need to learn how to grow my own meal worms.
Way back in March, I asked my wife if I needed to build a new brooder. We gave our old one away at the end of last summer. She told me we wouldn't be getting any new chicks this year, unless one of the hens went broody. Then she could raise them herself in the coop.
In April, a friend asked me to build her a new coop. About the time I was finishing it up a couple weeks ago, the friend ordered 25 BR chicks. Naturally my wife immediately decided that we also needed new chicks. Can't have somebody else with new babies, and us not getting any. So she ordered 25 chicks from McMurray. At 7am on Thursday I picked our new chicks from the post office. 5 Black Giants, 5 Buff Cochins, 15 Brown Egg Layers, and the ever popular, 1 Rare Exotic something. All the chicks arrived healthy and seem to be doing great. They are all very active and consuming large quantities of starter feed!
A little after noon on the same day, my wife arrived home from helping with the VBS at church, with a box containing 3 Frizzled Black Cochins and 2 frizzled Buff Cochins. Apparently there is a breeder about 20 miles from here who will actually deliver the chicks to you. The story I got was the lady just happen to be in the area delivering a big order and knew we might need more chicks. I don't exactly believe this story, but there isn't much I can do about it. These chicks appear to be 1-2 weeks old, because their feathers have started to fill in a bit.
This will about double the size of our flock, but I'm confident we have room for them. I have 768 sqft of coop and run area combined with 384 sqft under roof. The chickens free range sunup to sundown over several acres of land. I have 80' linear of roosting space, so nobody should feel crowded.
We also have another RIR who just went broody on 9 eggs and a guinea hen adding eggs to her nest each day. She's up to 12 now, so she should start setting in another week or so. The last RIR to go broody has 8 chicks about 7 weeks old she is just starting to wean.
I may have to start buying feed by the pallet. And I guess I need to learn how to grow my own meal worms.
