Arkansas folks speak up.........

[urban dreamer]

birdaholic! Have fun!

 

[Dustin Biery]

Anyone go to the Fayetteville show?

 

[mzfancichicks]

I did...it was my first. I really enjoyed meeting Brenda Little (Marans). I learned some things also. I will definitely go next year !!!
April

 

[mzfancichicks]

Welcome birdaholic !!! This is a great place to visit and learn. I love it. The people are really great !!!
April

 

[Oklahoma Lightning]

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Sounds like your moving up my way, I am a Okie but we so close to Ar that we go there for most things,food,medc ine,doctors and some feed. It 24 miles to Siloam Springs,24 miles to Tahlequah and Siloam is bigger.

 

[angel1]

Hey Oklahoma Lightnen,

Yeah, we're tryin to. We've got to find a place though. And I've also got lake property that I have to sell and the house and acreage that we're on now. I don't want to be "stuck" in a small place with neighbors on both sides. I'm not saying neighbors are always bad. DH and I just need quite a bit of space to ourselves, otherwise we feel like we're bout to smother, so we're trying to find quite a bit of property. Don't know though. Brother n law found us a farmhouse with 40 acres in Seligman, MO. He says it's nice land. I can always build. Anyway, I finally got my 75 chicks in and they were smotherin each other. over the last 4 days I've lost 5 chicks. So I took them out of the plywood brooderbox and put them in the building with my 4 week old future layers (barred rocks) and fenced them off to theirselves so the older ones wouldn't pick on them. Inside the building it shows that it's 80 degrees according to the thermometer...but they're hollering and that makes me worried. Maybe 80 degrees is too cold for them right now. Coarse it could also be that they have to get use to their new digs? I'm getting ready to go back out there and put down more hay on the floor. I HOPE I don't loose anymore! oh yeah, the hatchery said to only feed these chicks 2 X's a day and DON'T feed them after 2:00pm. To tell the truth I did that and I kinda figure that is why I lost so many last night? I've nade the decision to go ahead and leave feed out for them 24/7 cause I don't want them going hungry. atleast, for a little while til they get bigger and I think they can tolerate it. These type are cornish x rocks. Anyway, yeah I won't be too awful far from you..........

 

[luvarabhorses]

Hi Angel

Welcome to the group! Personally I think you should stay in Arkansas. Missouri is too cold! I didn't read your post very carefully but you definitely need a clamp light and at least a 60 watt bulb on them, otherwise you will lose them.

There are plenty of remote areas in Arkansas without neighbors. I've been to Havana and it is pretty remote. It is also a unique geographical area with Mount Magazine being right there.

Lisa

 

[jenjscott]

Angel, new chicks need to start out at 95 degrees, coming down about 5 degrees a week. They may be smothering each other because they're stacking up because they're cold.

 

[angel1]

Jen,

I checked the temp in the box before I transfered them to the pen and it was about 100 degrees...so I don't think they were cold. Now that they have a heat lamp hanging down and plenty of space they don't hover on top of each other. Only some are still doing this. I checked the heat lamp after I put the hay, food and water in the pen (those little chicks love the hay) with them and it was between 80-85 degrees. Some how after they calmed down they seem like they like it alot better. Then I thought they might need more heat so I lowered the lamp a few more notches.

Lisa,
If we move to MO we'd only be right over the AR/MO line. I would have a PO box still in AR. and you can walk right out on my deck just off the kitchen and look at mount magazine. Of a nighttime you can see the lights from the restaurant up there. It's a real shame, been here for over 20 years and they built all that stuff a few years ago and I still have never been up there to eat or fish. We're movin cause I need to be closer to my 85 yr old mother. BTW, Havana, I think has about 500 people in it...............gettin ready to go back out and check the chicks and see how their doin.......................

 

[juliechick]

I heard a new rooster crow this morning. My little Wyandotte bantam let loose with a kind of aaak! sound. Just one syllable, sounded like someone grabbed him by the neck.

I love it when they first get started.