Arizona Chickens

[CaroleW]

I had the older and younger chicks outside in 2 side-by-side wire crates yesterday - in a look but don't touch each other system - or so I thought.

Almost all the littles kept wiggling into the other crate, getting pecked just a little by the bigs but they would stay there for a while amongst the bigs even foraging by their feet eventually.

I will keep doing this supervised side-by-side session until they can be put together full-time. The bigs will go outside full-time soon. Littles will follow a week or 2 later. No one is fully feathered yet.

 

[CaroleW]

Well, out of 21 eggs that went into the incubator on 8/1, three survivors entered lockdown today. Like last time, there were some that started but didn't make it, and there were a lot of dud eggs. And like last time, all the good eggs were laid on different dates, so they may possibly be all from the same hen. When I make breakfast, all the Leghorn eggs have bullseyes, so it looks like Big Ben is on the job. What do you make of this?

Anyone hatch yet?

 

[BlueBaby]

I have 5 of the girl's that will be sold today, and moving to the house by the corner. The lady needed more girl's for her rooster.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

Anyone hatch yet?

Not yet, but wow, did I ever hit the jackpot this morning!!!!! I just got back from a yard sale. The seller is cutting back on chickens. I came home with three ten foot panels and a six foot panel with a gate. So what if the run isn't perfectly square, the chickens won't complain. I also got a few hundred feet of sturdy wire and a nice quarantine cage. He saw the coop I planned to finish today, and says he has 4 panels exactly like mine, and can bring them here on Wednesday. Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket. Here's my coop in progress: https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...coop-in-progress.1488578/page-3#post-24828651

 

[BlueBaby]

Not yet, but wow, did I ever hit the jackpot this morning!!!!! I just got back from a yard sale. The seller is cutting back on chickens. I came home with three ten foot panels and a six foot panel with a gate. So what if the run isn't perfectly square, the chickens won't complain. I also got a few hundred feet of sturdy wire and a nice quarantine cage. He saw the coop I planned to finish today, and says he has 4 panels exactly like mine, and can bring them here on Wednesday. Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket. Here's my coop in progress: https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...coop-in-progress.1488578/page-3#post-24828651

Don't you just love those rare time's when everything seems to fall into place the way that you need them too?

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

Anyone hatch yet?

One egg is pipping!

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

Worked on the coop all day, with occasional breaks to check the forum. I got the run securely attached to the coop, straightened and tightened it, and attached the hardware cloth over the gap between the top of the run and the door so nobody can fly out. Being me instead of a carpenter, that took about 5 hours.

Next comes the roost bar, and covering the top of the run with the sturdy wire. The wire I got today should fit perfectly across the top. Then hardware cloth around the perimeter, and other odds and ends.

That one egg still has that little beginning of a pip, no more progress on it so far, and no chirping yet. The eggs are due to hatch tomorrow.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

One chick hatched yesterday. It's yellow with a black saddle, just like 2 of the 3 from the last hatch. A second egg has a hole in it and somebody peeping inside. Today is their due date.

 

[BlueBaby]

One chick hatched yesterday. It's yellow with a black saddle, just like 2 of the 3 from the last hatch. A second egg has a hole in it and somebody peeping inside. Today is their due date.

The 2 that looked like that from your last hatch were girl's, right?

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

The 2 that looked like that from your last hatch were girl's, right?

I believe so. One's comb has gotten slightly larger, but it's not near Gabriel's.

Chick #2 is black with a little yellow on its throat, around its legs, and a spot on its right wing. It keeps napping with its head resting inside eggshells. Must feel like home to it, LOL. Egg #3 has not pipped yet.