Anyone impatiently waiting for your baby chicks to arrive?!?!

[lizzychick]

So, as I'm counting down the days till the chicks arrive, my husband comes home with a Huskey puppy.....HELLO...I have 15 babies coming in two weeks, and you bring ANOTHER baby for me to take care of???? Good thing I am gaga about all things baby.....baby people, baby bunnies, baby chickens and baby puppies too.

 

[TripMomma]

So, as I'm counting down the days till the chicks arrive, my husband comes home with a Huskey puppy.....HELLO...I have 15 babies coming in two weeks, and you bring ANOTHER baby for me to take care of???? Good thing I am gaga about all things baby.....baby people, baby bunnies, baby chickens and baby puppies too.

I have 4 kiddos (6,6,6, and 4) a 4 months old Dutch Shepherd and now 7 chicks...cray cray LOL

 

[lizzychick]

I have 4 kiddos (6,6,6, and 4) a 4 months old Dutch Shepherd and now 7 chicks...cray cray LOL

I have 3 kids (15, 12, 9), 2 bunnies, 2 dogs, 5 hens, and am expecting my batch of baby peepers in 2 weeks. Long story short, I'll be down to the town limit of 6 chickens by May 1st.

 

[SkylineFarms]

Well, we got ours today- All DOA 5 barred babies.
I feel so guilty sending them to their death by ordering them from freakin Antarctica- I mean Wisconsin. WE will try again on the 23rd from cackle and have ordered 10 this time. I hope we have better luck. Poor babies.

So sad.

I have an order from Cackle shipping out on the 23rd has well. 15 Mille Fleur D'uccles, 10 Porcelain D'uccle, and 5 Salmon Faverolles Pullets. I hope yours arrive safely this time!

 

[shrparatch]

We placed an order with Cackle Hatchery and are expecting them the end of this week. Starting to get very nervous about the trip, it is supposed to be very cold. I hope they all survive, we ordered the 5 pullet small town special. Will update when they arrive.

 

[jlynnp]

I got an email from McMurray's and my new gang should be here tomorrow. I have

10 Buff Orp pullets
5 Americuana (sp) pullets
20 Black Langsham straight run
10 Red Ranger broiler males
5 Red Ranger broiler pullets
1 Silver Laced Wyan male
5 Silver Laced Wyan pullets

Hoping the Langshams are at least 50% pullets
Of course there is also my free mystery bird.

 

[TripMomma]

To those who have a lot of chicks coming, can I ask where/what size brooders do you use to brood such large amounts of chicks? I have 7 chicks and I am already wondering what I am going to do with them when they out grow the brooders I have, before they can go outside.

What is the min. brooder size for 7 chicks?

 

[kmartinez]

I have 17 chicks I used card board boxes first so i could control the size keeping it smaller so they dont lose their way back to heat sorce and feed. I just expanded the area when they grew by adding another box and duck taping the new box to the existing boxes. Now they are in a large bo made of coroplast again its easy to modify to expand it

 

[jlynnp]

We have several brooders. Right now because it is cold the 56 new babies I got today are in the heated garage in a 6 foot stock tank. In about a week I will split them into 2 tanks. When I think they have enough feathers and the weather is ok they will go into the barn in my 4 x 8 brooder. I also have another small brooder which I use if there are only a few chicks.

 

[jlynnp]

My new babies from McMurray's arrived promptly this morning all 56 of them are fat sassy and running all over the brooder.