Arizona Chickens

[moms3cuties]

**My daughter asked me to ask, ,, WHO Knows, ,, How to Quiet A SINGLE BABY CHICK peeping like crazy???

Try a little stuffed animal. She is lonely.

**My daughter asked me to ask, ,, WHO Knows, ,, How to Quiet A SINGLE BABY CHICK peeping like crazy???

Chicks peep a lot when they are trying to find the rest of the flock. This is one reason I leave the early-hatching chicks in the hatcher until the main part of the hatch is over. Chicks still in the eggs will sometimes peep a little, too, so the early-hatching chicks know they are not totally alone. It also seems like the peeping early chicks act like cheerleaders for the chicks who are still trying to get out of their eggs. Maybe I'm anthropomorphizing? In my hatcher I support the eggs in cut-out sections of egg cartons, so early-hatching chicks won't accidentally roll the later-hatching eggs around. If your hatching eggs are just lying there on their sides it may be better not to leave the early-hatching chicks in the hatcher after they are dry and rested. Chicks have a hard enough getting out of an egg without some older sibling kicking their egg around and knocking them out of position.

Awww how sweet! that is a neat idea having the chick around so the others can hear her, lol why didn't I think of that! I'll see if we can find a baby stuffed animal to possibly work but I'm not sure she'll believe it, but I can always try! ..thank you everybody for your ideas!!!

 

[moms3cuties]

 
Do you guy feed your chick with green grass?

My house doesn't has any green grass, I tell my wife get some vegetable from store give it to them.
I am thinking about to grow some wheat grass for them.
Please give me some Idea.

My property is pretty devoid of grass right now too. I sprout seeds to feed to my flock - oat, wheat grass, alfalfa, wheat berry, rye, broccoli, radish, sunflower, and clover. They devour the stuff! They've even favored the sprouts to meal worms, which really surprised me. They also get dandlion greens, kale, spinach, Swiss chard, lettuce and cabbage leaves from my winter garden. As soon as they see me coming with a handful of greens they start going nutts and dance around in great excitement. 

I also feed them kitchen scraps from my dinner preparations.  They're especially fond of squash seeds, but also devour carrot peels, squash peels, blueberries, smashed garlic and even onion, which really surprised me. The love fresh produce. 

Yum! Lucky chickens! my son and I, we just crunch up ( or cut up) some organic baby carrots and spit out the carrots to them and they go crazy, but of course my family's quite silly.

.. or if you have some big sky feed look at my picture below as 1 way to grow sprouts, lol...

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NOW just so you know,, this is not the Normal way to sprout seeds, lol !

 

[flower]

Do you guy feed your chick with green grass?

My house doesn't has any green grass, I tell my wife get some vegetable from store give it to them.
I am thinking about to grow some wheat grass for them.
Please give me some Idea.

Where I live there are plenty of wild mustard weeds which the hens love. An Idea would be to grow sprouts in a flat. several flat in fact so you can have a rotating stock. Chcikens love to peck around anywhere. store bought greens work also but with some effort you can raise your own.

 

[Born2blove]

My property is pretty devoid of grass right now too. I sprout seeds to feed to my flock - oat, wheat grass, alfalfa, wheat berry, rye, broccoli, radish, sunflower, and clover. They devour the stuff! They've even favored the sprouts to meal worms, which really surprised me. They also get dandlion greens, kale, spinach, Swiss chard, lettuce and cabbage leaves from my winter garden. As soon as they see me coming with a handful of greens they start going nutts and dance around in great excitement.

I also feed them kitchen scraps from my dinner preparations. They're especially fond of squash seeds, but also devour carrot peels, squash peels, blueberries, smashed garlic and even onion, which really surprised me. The love fresh produce.

Yes I just order some sprout from amazon,also I just see youtube show me how to create meal worm.

Do you know where I can order Meal Worm for raise, can we use meal worm from walmart

 

[cyborg]

Well, I took off from work tonight at lunch time, with chicken cages already loaded in the truck. Went to the old house and picked 10 chickens off the roost (all I can carry in my 2 cages). By my reckoning, with what I moved this morning and yesterday morning and tonight, I should have all the Jersey Giants moved to the new house. Unfortunately on arrival, I found I had a Black Copper Marans in one of the cages, so I need to go back tomorrow and find the last Giant. (Hey, it was dark out there!)

 

[moms3cuties]

 

My property is pretty devoid of grass right now too. I sprout seeds to feed to my flock - oat, wheat grass, alfalfa, wheat berry, rye, broccoli, radish, sunflower, and clover. They devour the stuff! They've even favored the sprouts to meal worms, which really surprised me. They also get dandlion greens, kale, spinach, Swiss chard, lettuce and cabbage leaves from my winter garden. As soon as they see me coming with a handful of greens they start going nutts and dance around in great excitement. 

I also feed them kitchen scraps from my dinner preparations.  They're especially fond of squash seeds, but also devour carrot peels, squash peels, blueberries, smashed garlic and even onion, which really surprised me. The love fresh produce. 

Yes I just order some sprout from amazon,also I just see youtube show me how to create meal worm.

Do you know where I can order Meal Worm for raise, can we use meal worm from walmart

just last week I was over at Petco off of Stapley and baseline and they have meal worms which are grown in the United States vs China, thankfully, which might be a place to pick up some!

Well, I took off from work tonight at lunch time, with chicken cages already loaded in the truck. Went to the old house and picked 10 chickens off the roost (all I can carry in my 2 cages). By my reckoning, with what I moved this morning and yesterday morning and tonight, I should have all the Jersey Giants moved to the new house. Unfortunately on arrival, I found I had a Black Copper Marans in one of the cages, so I need to go back tomorrow and find the last Giant. (Hey, it was dark out there!)

...well good job grabbing quite a few! ........however, it needs to be said you might need to get a new pair of glasses, I'm just saying!!!

and second you know there's the invention of that flashlight, just take one hand with the flashlight the other just grab that bird down, ( try to balance both of them, you see ), and do it Very carefully, ,,, and you should have the job done, right?!!

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Yes I just order some sprout from amazon,also I just see youtube show me how to create meal worm.

Do you know where I can order Meal Worm for raise, can we use meal worm from walmart

You can use the mealworms from Walmart, but they probably won't be the most economical. Try to get at least 1000 to start and it will make the process easier. You should be able to get them for about $10-15 per 1000 online. Look at the link in my signature line to see how I raise them.

 

[Born2blove]

You can use the mealworms from Walmart, but they probably won't be the most economical. Try to get at least 1000 to start and it will make the process easier. You should be able to get them for about $10-15 per 1000 online. Look at the link in my signature line to see how I raise them.

Thanks for your help
I found Amazon has this meal worm is this good to order
http://www.amazon.com/1000ct-Mealworms-Reptile-Chickens-Medium/dp/B00CQMTP56

which size is good, small, mid, large

 

[cyborg]

Thanks for your help
I found Amazon has this meal worm is this good to order
http://www.amazon.com/1000ct-Mealworms-Reptile-Chickens-Medium/dp/B00CQMTP56

which size is good, small, mid, large

The chickens don't care how big they are, they love them all!
I ordered that same deal off Amazon, and was pretty happy with them. Start with 1,000, and make sure to get some wheat germ to feed them.

 

[cyborg]

just last week I was over at Petco off of Stapley and baseline and they have meal worms which are grown in the United States vs China, thankfully, which might be a place to pick up some!
...well good job grabbing quite a few! ........however, it needs to be said you might need to get a new pair of glasses, I'm just saying!!!


and second you know there's the invention of that flashlight, just take one hand with the flashlight the other just grab that bird down, ( try to balance both of them, you see ), and do it Very carefully, ,,, and you should have the job done, right?!!

I DEMAND A RECOUNT!!
When I went over to the old house this morning, I found I still had 3 Giants over there. This first pen is exclusively for Jersey Giants, the remaining breeds will be moved as additional pens are built. Trying to separate the breeds to avoid barnyard mixes. I was using a small penlight with lame light output, but a BCM hen and a Jersey hen are hard to tell apart in the dark.