Anyone else Raising Chicks right now?

[Pelican49]

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I haven't lived here long, but the rural water district here is going to get an earfull Monday. We lost water yesterday, yep, middle of Thanksgiving. Thought it might be our line, but no, the neighbor about 1/4 mile from us doesn't have water either. Something I hadn't noticed before?... they have no emergency services number. That's right. When you call the regular number you get a message saying to call back on Monday.

I just checked it a while ago, still out. My kitchen & diningroom are a disaster! And I'm right now using the LAST clean coffee cup!

The electric here is on battery backup that's supposed to last 14 hours. Not sure I would want to put that to the test, but just in case, it is attached to the heat lamp for the chicks. My 34 babies turned 7 weeks on Wednesday.

So sorry about your babies.

ETA: a couple pics of my chicks

A Barred Rock, a couple Buff Wyandottes, I think the brown one in the middle is a Welsummer? and on the far right a Silver Lakenvelder

Front and center is a Gold Lakenvelder and behind her I think an EE(fine by me) sold as an Ameraucana, on the far left one of the Silver Laced Wyandottes.

 

[sonew123]

Man having broodies right now is hard! I have one that is sitting on BLRW fertility testers for me and 3 of my split lav silkie eggs-well her other 2 sisters have gone broody in the last few days and you have noooo idea how tempting it is to fill them up with BLRW eggs I could have a huge flock of them come Spring
Oh I have 11 -1 week old chicks in bathroom brooder and 5 -5 weeks old silkies in kitchen brooder-7 of those are sold and I will deliver today.

The broodies are down in garage and it would be SOOOO easy to put them all together so they can raise all their chicks together??? I made a 5 x 7 run ( very light weight) I could stick in garage fill with bedding and such and just let mother nature take its course with all of them--Of course then I would have to continue buying 2 diff kinds of food all through Winter...??? IDK IDK IDK

 

[drdoolittle]

I have 10 chicks in the garage in a stock tank with a heat light----------don't know when they'll ever get outside! The tank is huge, so they aren't too crowded, but I wish they were out with the others. I also have a BO hen sitting eggs right now-----about 12-14, but I think they may all be bad. I feel sorry for the hen, she is so protective of them.

 

[HorizonSon]

See the chickies up on the beautiful Myrtlewood perch?... See the hoard of vultures hovering over the large pork roast bone, to the far right? They're a couple days shy of four weeks old.

P.S. Ignore the silly reflections in the glass. No; I do NOT have a wheelbarrow, nor fencing, in there with them, lol.

 

[BigIslandChicks]

I just got 5 new chickies last night!

4 weeks old off heat and so big already... i got to see them when they were a few days old and just got to pick them up last night. 2 barred rocks and 3 NHReds. all pullets. well at least i hope so one of the reds comb is a bit bigger than the other 2. they have been on newspaper before at the place i got them, but i put some under them and they ripped it up...so i took it out. they are in big laundry basket right now (mini coop will be finished tomorrow - the rain got us today

but we did get the first snow on the volcano last night!! so thats nice - i havent seen it yet, it was cloudy by the time i got up...but the DH saw it early this morning. back to the chickies...i was going to put some straw in with them because this is what i will use in there coop...are they ready? will they eat it?? these are my first in-house babies - the one i have mamma raised. any thoughts? thanks peeps!

 

[debilorrah]

You can't see them very well here, but there are 13 2-week olds in the left half of the brooder.

 

[Rozzie]

I have quail chicks that are a bit over 3 weeks old. They will be losing their heat tonight or tomorrow. I want their heat lamp for my big birds in the garage, since the outdoor temps are getting darned cold now. Actual temp will be close to zero tomorrow. Brrrrr.

 

[aceoftrumps]

I've got 12 partridge rock chicks that are 3 weeks old and in their outside brooder.....and 30 eggs in the incubator. This is so much fun!

Kurt

 

[gryeyes]

33chicks, from 2.5 weeks down to 1week old, in the ginormous brooder in the new shed. The call ducklings are the only babies left in the house.....at least until the chicks due today hatch. I wonder what I calculated wrong, 'cause there aren't any pips yet.

 

[Baralak]

11 1 week old mixed..mutts...lol...