Cackel Hatchery?!? (UPDATE I GOT MY BABIES WITH PICS)

[TheFreundFlock]

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It is true. Newspaper inks are bad for the respiratory systems of small/growing animals, including hamster, ferrets, baby chicks, and more.

When newspaper gets wet, it is slippery and can cause the chicks to not get their footing. They can develop splay leg because of this...

If you take out the newspaper and put some paper towels down instead, you should be fine! After a few days to a week of paper towels, you can switch to pine shavings (not cedar!)... Add some chick grit to their feed in case they ingest some of the pine shavings....

good luck with your cute little babies!! and your little girl is precious too!!!

I change the newspaper out 3 times a day! So it never has a chance to get slippery, but I will be moving them on to pine shavings this weekend! They are growing so fast! They are already loosing their baby fuzz and getting wing feathers (I think they were a little older than a day when being shipped!)

Because we live in nice warm Texas, we let them out to run in the run we made for them! They had so much fun and it was funny watching them roll around in the dirt! Here is a pic of them!

Yesterday we lost one of them, my daughter (only 4 yr) accidentally stepped on one! I had to put him down!

We have named them all! And I will be working on their page today!
Their names are:
Ally
Roxy
marsala
Penny
Dori
Clucky
BarbieQ
Dumpling
Shelia
Happy Feet
KFC (My husbands)
Buffy the Worm Slayer
Butterscotch
Sangria

This is Tori with her chick Ally!

 

[Ms~Silkie~Girl]

CUTEE chicks!!!

 

[gardenak]

Your daughter is so cute! So are the chicks, although I'm so glad mine are 13 weeks now, a lot of the hard, busy work is over. We go out and play in the garden now.

 

[TheFreundFlock]

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You live an hour from me! We live in Willis which is right on the outskirts of Conroe! So if you are serious about maybe trading a few, I am willing to meet up half way. My husband is a UPS driver delivers right outside of the city limits!

 

[cmom]

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Congratulation on your new chicks. So glad the arrived safely. I know the feeling. My chicks were shipped on a Monday and supposed to arrive on a Wednesday. I called the P.O. and was told none came in that morning and that most likely they would be in the next day as they usually get them in around 6am. At 3pm that day I got a call from the post office that my chicks had come in with some priority mail.

 

[thedoors5to1]

KFC!!!??? hahaha

thats so funny! i couldnt help but laugh. thankfully though KFC the chicken wont ever be a KFC chicken....phew. you prolly scared him when he found out his name... lol

 

[mfanch]

Very cute babies, you should be proud. Question? What is in their water, marbles? And why

New to chickens, maybe it's something I should do also.

 

[goosemama]

I have used Cackle Hatchery a couple of times in the last few years. Two years ago when I ordered Delawares and Amerecana all pullets I ended up with 3 roosters out of 12 (a high percentage). However, they refunded my credit card for the pullets which turned out to be roosters. Last year I ordered 6 Welsummers and 16 Amerecanas and 2 of the Welsummers died the first week but the rest survived. They have always seemed to stand behind what they sell and are very helpful with questions on the phone. I wouldn't be afraid to use them again.

 

[babyspice35]

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It keeps them from walking in it... although I've never heard of them being used in the continuous waterers like the picture... just in water dishes.

 

[can you hear me now?]

The one thing I will continue to reitterate is that cackle tries very hard to get that breed standard. I know someone that decided to start breeding for them and they are actually trying to breed show quality birds for next years hatch, maybe they are trying a lot harder than everyone thinks. I do know they have been very,very busy as of last year. Seems everyone wants chickens these days. Can you blame them?