Chicks this week

[Catfishingpokey]

Well there must be somthing wrong with my delaware pullets they are three weeks old and i havent got an egg yet.guess i will make dumplings when i get home from work tomorow.

 

[mjdtexan]

Today is shipping day. I wonder what I am going to do with the roo's they ship for warmth?

 

[mjdtexan]

I dont know why this posted twice, I apologise.

(edited because of double post)

 

[jossanne]

I got 10 bantam cochins shipped from Ideal last Wednesday, they arrived Thursday, along with 15 males for warmth (either BR or BSL). One of the little extras died en route, but the other 24 babies are all happy and running around like little crazies.

I put paper towels on top of my wood shavings for the first day, and then took the paper towels out on the morning of day 2. They've done fine with it.

I bet you won't get as many extras as I did, since your order is so much larger than mine. We're trying to figure out how we're going to house 14 cockerels until they're big enough to eat. We're going to have to build them their own fence somehow. But they'll taste good come February...

 

[the1much]

i NEVER get extra's,, maybe i need to order 100 chicks 10 at a time. that last shipment was 150 on the dot

 

[Chickenaddict]

I have an order coming in this week too, dunno what im gonna do with the extra packing peanuts, too much male hormones going on over here as it is. Anyone want my packing peanuts? lol

 

[jossanne]

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Great plan Jim... I was considering doing the same thing.

Ordering 10 frizzles next time, maybe they'll send another 15 males. LOL Who in the world can use that many extra roosters??? My husband would KILL me!

 

[the1much]

i got 11 roo's not counting my 10 black star ones,,, i'll take all the roos i can get,, i love em

 

[jossanne]

11 roos plus the black star ones... not too bad when it's from about 75 birds, I'd say LOL.

I've now got 58 chickens, including 20ish roos. Don't know the total until the cochins are bigger, but pendulum test says there are 5 boys in that bunch. So that gives me 21... if we kept them all, the whole neighborhood would HATE me!

 

[mjdtexan]

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I have really been paying attention to the sound of roosters in the morning since I started comming to this site. There are ALOT of roosters around here. My neighbors on either side of me both have chickens, They are spanish speaking chickens.