3rd Annual New Year's Day Hatch!!

[Mahonri]

It would be physically impossible for 27 chicks to remain in my house for THREE WEEKS.

I have 6 in the Laree brooder, (#29, the Lavender Am, the 2 SFHs, blue EE and mottled Icelandic)... the other 21 are living happy in the other grow out pen... but I have noticed that one lamp is not quite enough to keep all of them warm... they move in and out from under it quite frequently... especially on a morning like this one when it's 44 degrees out there. They are eating and poooping machines right now!.

 

[BHep]

Wait... we're not supposed to keep the chicks we hatched? Oh boy, I just had a builder up here this week to see about enclosing my pole barn and turning it into a gigantic chicken barn.

That is what I did before x-mas. I still have too many chickens..... I did re home 11 chicks for the NY hatch.
Excuse the mess, this was taken during the build.

 

[LeasureChix]

Wow, Beth, beautiful! I'm jealous! My poor chickies are 1/2 flooded right now in make shift coops.

The only NYD chicks I rehomed were my 2 mixed color silkies. My Catdance silkies and Bargain Marans will stay until they've had a chance to grow out and I decide what to keep.

 

[champer]

Bhep, that's impressive looking! Did you do it yourself and how many chooks can you accomodate?

 

[Mahonri]

...lucky NC chickens....

 

[NotAFarm]

Beth, Your rooster at the waterer seems to be looking at the coop and saying to the hen.........."What is she up to now?!"

 

[craz e laid e]

Have to move my 10 NYD chicks from inside brooder to tack room larger brooder today.

It isn't as convenient to visit them there, but they have outgrown their current accomodations. Also, it is colder out there, but they will still have a heat lamp. My chicken coop is getting to the max. capacity stage, so I'm wondering if the horses would mind having bunk mates at night. They get along, and share their grain with them, so

. Would preditors go in stall for chickens with 1000 lb. horse standing guard ???

 

[dsqard]

craz e laid e you are lucky. My horses think that "stomp the chicken" is a really fun game. My chickens have learned to avoid the horses at all costs.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Have to move my 10 NYD chicks from inside brooder to tack room larger brooder today.

It isn't as convenient to visit them there, but they have outgrown their current accomodations. Also, it is colder out there, but they will still have a heat lamp. My chicken coop is getting to the max. capacity stage, so I'm wondering if the horses would mind having bunk mates at night. They get along, and share their grain with them, so

. Would preditors go in stall for chickens with 1000 lb. horse standing guard ???

Your horse is GORGEOUS. We had horses until I went away to college... that picture above is making me want them again...

 

[karimw]

Have to move my 10 NYD chicks from inside brooder to tack room larger brooder today.

It isn't as convenient to visit them there, but they have outgrown their current accomodations. Also, it is colder out there, but they will still have a heat lamp. My chicken coop is getting to the max. capacity stage, so I'm wondering if the horses would mind having bunk mates at night. They get along, and share their grain with them, so

. Would preditors go in stall for chickens with 1000 lb. horse standing guard ???

My main coop is an island in the middle of my pasture and the horses do keep the neighbor dogs away. There have been occasions when I have to close my eyes and hope everyone survives though.